Nilekani Interview on CNN IBN

I just now finished watching this interview on CNN IBN's website. The interview was done with Nandan Nilekani about why India needs a Unique Identification project and does the project itself make any sense. And boy-oh-boy! I was not only impressed by Karan Thapar's interviewing skills but also by the people who have done such extensive research as to probe into so many minute details on Unique ID project and question its viability. Karan talks about many things from the economic benefit of the project to vulnerability of the database to hackers to taking examples of UK, US and other countries who have not gone ahead with similar projects in their country and questions the reasons why it will work in India.

The interview is simply amazing. All Nilekani was able to convey was that the concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed. Watch it! :-)

Virtumonde spyware!

Last week my laptop got infected with Virtumonde spyware. It is the most annoying spyware that I have seen. This spyware gets hidden somewhere in the computer and becomes very very difficult to remove it. I tried to install hijackthis and superantispyware but both were not able to remove this stupid, annoying spyware. More info on this spyware can be found here.

Then after searching for sometime I found a video on youtube (see youtube can be helpful as well :-)) which can be found here. What the video suggested is to restore the system to a point earlier in time and that should take care of the spyware. I had no option but to give it a shot. I restored my system to a date 2 weeks in advance and voila! the spyware was gone. The browser stopped showing stupid ads and I was able to browse peacefully :-).

So if you get infected with this annoying spyware, try doing system restore. But do it at your own risk! :-)