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Hello everyone!
September has already been a busy month for me with school starting and making time for the jobs I work and some social time. In any case, I’m still working at Planet Label and have been trying to find ways to incorporate the work I do for them into my class activities. So far, I have been very successful in the attempt. My marketing class is allowing me to use Planet Label as my local company to “consult”. The goal I want to set is to be able to look back at past attempts, evaluate successes and failures, improve on the successes, correct the failures, and come up with some new ideas. So far, it’s breathed life into old ideas.
Aside from all of that, this month was my birthday. I got to spend the day with a Buddhist monk by the name of Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen, who serves as Vice President of Tsechen Kunchab Ling, Temple of All-Encompassing Great Compassion. This is the U.S. headquarters of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a very kind and intelligent man to which I am grateful for spending the day with. I typically don’t celebrate my birthday, but this added a unique zest to the day.
Great discussion this week everyone!
I was very pleased with everyone’s participation and overall interest in the topics discussed. I was also very pleased with how all of you are retaining and understanding the concepts covered in your 303 course. Below are my notes, as promised, from our first week. They’re cleaned up and may have some additional information that we didn’t discuss during class.
If you find any errors or would like to see additions made to the notes, please leave a comment at the bottom of the post. By doing this, we can create a better collective of notes and references. This is GREAT for upcoming quizzes or midterms 
Judges 4-5
Who was Deborah?
Who was Jael and what was her role in Judges 4?
Who was Sisera?
Who was Barak and what was his demand?
What is the title synonymous with Judges 5?
What does the Song of Deborah depict and what makes this chapter interesting?
For the past few months, I’ve had a fair amount of people come to me with a problem that involves an application called Personal Antivirus (PAV) that installs itself on the user’s machine. Everyone who has confronted me about this software was unaware of how it was installed and concerns about the results that the application claims to find on the machine its installed on.
Here’s a few things to know about Personal Antivirus:
Here is a screen capture of PAV in action:
In either case, this application is a fraud and causes your system to be infected. The method I use to rid systems of PAV is to download and scan the infected computer with a program called SuperAntiSpyware. At first, I SuperAntiSpyware was a very ambiguous program itself until I downloaded and tried it on a client’s computer. I was greatly impressed with the program and how effectively it cleans up spyware, trojans and other malware. To be even more elusive, PAV has a very similar user interface to AVG AntiVirus which can be misleading to basic users.
To download the software for free, visit here.
Removing Personal AntiVirus
The first step to removing PAV is to access the Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL. Look for the process called pav.exe and terminate the process. Below is a screen capture of the task manager with the process highlighted.
After ending the pav.exe process, begin the installation of SuperAntiSpyware
When you see the window that states Would you like SuperAntiSpyware to check for the latest… click Yes. it’s not mandatory, but definitely recommended for future use.
Ignore the email portion by clicking Next
For automatic updates, make sure the box is checked to enable the feature. It’s another highly recommended action for future use of the program.
Personally, I usually ignore sending the diagnostic because I’d rather get the computer scan and fixed. The diagnostic report isn’t required or really necessary for removing PAV, so I usually uncheck the box and move on to the next step.
In the event of a security compromise of the browser’s homepage like in PAV, the next step of protecting the home page from being changed is highly recommended, but not required.
Start up SuperAntiSpyware after installation, click the button Scan you Computer, and select the Perform Complete Scan option.
If anything is found during the scan, a window will provide the results found
Following this window, the results of the scan will be shown and the option of choosing what to remove is provided. The screen captures below show some of the files associated with PAV.
Select the infected files you wish to remove. Restart the computer, and your computer should be rid of PAV. The process generally takes about an hour, but is dependent on the number of files and system resources.
This is one of many methods of cleaning up PAV and is the method I’ve found to work the best in the situations I’ve been in. If anyone has any other alternatives to removing PAV, please add them to the comments. I’ll keep this post up to date with any alternatives I may find.
Special thanks goes out to Ashley. Her machine was the infected machine that I used to get screen captures. She’s been PAV free ever since!
I’m currently in the process of wrapping three majors at UWSP in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Web and Digital Media Development (WDMD), and Philosophy with emphasis in Religious Studies. Right now, I am a VB.NET programmer at Sentry Insurance, Social Media dude for Planet Label, and computer, social media, and web guy at the Stevens Point Brewery.
I specialize in .NET and the Adobe Flash platform, but also love HTML/CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, and SQL, to name a few. I have an appreciation for the design side of the web, too, and content management systems such as Joomla or Wordpress.
When I am not developing or designing, you can catch me reading about Comparative Religion, Philosophy, Physics, and the occasional fairy tale or two. I also love going to concerts.
