Flashback Trojan Removal

April 13, 2012

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It was reported that more than 650,000 Mac OS X computers were infected by the Flashback Trojan. For now, it only conducts a click fraud scam that takes control of users’ search results in their browsers. But according to this report, it can steal banking and other login credentials.
Flashback Trojan disguises itself as a Flash installer. If you are prompted to install Flash which looks like the image below, abort the installation by clicking the X button on the upper left corner of the window.
If you want to check if your machine is infected, download the removal tool (FlashbackRemoval.zip) from F-Secure. Unzip the file after downloading and double click the unzipped script. You will be asked to accept the license agreement.
If traces of the trojan are found, it will start the clean up process. But if your system is clean, you will be prompted by this:
Apple has already released an update which has an integrated tool for removing the trojan. Always keep your Macs updated. Here’s the screenshot of the update:

Create a Horizontal RSS Feed Ticker

February 25, 2012

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We have added an article ticker on the school’s website that shows the latest posts from our blog site. jQuery tickers are always a plus if you’re promoting your blog.

Brent Review Ticker

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On this tutorial, I will show you how to create a horizontally scrolling news/article ticker that will load content from a feed. I’m assuming that you are a website admin and has control/access on your host (ftp or ssh).

To be able to load feeds from our blog site, we’ll use SimplePie. It’s a free code library that you can download from here. After downloading and unzipping SimplePie, create server-writable “php” and “cache” folders on your web host’s root directory (where your index or home page is located). Upload “simplepie.inc” to the “php” folder you created. Edit your home page and add these lines before the DocType declaration:

<?php
require_once(‘path/to/simplepie.inc’);
$feed = new SimplePie();
$feed->set_feed_url(‘http://website.url/feed/&#8217;);
$feed->init();
$feed->handle_content_type();
?>

Create a div that will contain your feed and add these lines that will fetch the article titles.

<!– some codes here –>
<div>
<?php foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) : ?>
<a target=“_blank” href=“<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>“><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
<!– more codes here –> 

Save your index page as a php file (index.php). Once you open your index page, you should be able to see your article titles.

We’ll now download two files from the liScroll website – jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js and li-scroller.css. Upload the files to their respective directories (usually js and css) and add these lines inside your index page’s head tag:

<head>
<!– other codes here –>
<link href=“css/li-scroller.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” media=“screen” /> 
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“js/jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js”></script> 

<script type=“text/javascript”>
$(function(){
$(“ul#ticker01”).liScroll({travelocity:0.1});
});
</script>
</head> 

The first two lines pointed where our jQuery code and css files are contained. The chunk of code after that called the liScroll() function. “Travelocity” specifies the scrolling speed. And finally, we’ll wrap our feeds inside an unordered list tag and add “ticker01” id. 

<!– some codes here –>
<div>
<ul id=“ticker01”>
<?php foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) : ?>
<li><a target=“_blank” href=“<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>“><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div> 

This will create a list of your feeds and liScroll will do its task of scrolling them horizontally. liScroll works with jQuery 1.4+.

Update

You may download the source files (feedticker_src.zip) from here. Unzip the file and upload them on your personal/test server (WAMP, MAMP, XAMPP, etc) and open index.php using your browser.

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