blog: divide and conquer shell extensions

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog found at:
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/19jul09-divide-and-conquer.htm

[Kilmatead]

We'll assume your allusion to ancient Greece was in the Euclidean sense of algorithms, and not in the political sense of Divide and Rule... Greece (or, more aptly, it's lot of quarrelsome city-states) was more a victim of that philosophy rather than the instigators.  Besides, when you have Alexander the Great around to prove that the sword is indeed mightier than the wax-tablet, Greece's one little interestingly failed political idea (democracy) pales into insignificance, histo-culturally speaking.

And, the Chinese Emperor should have lost his throne from shame for trying to take credit for an Indian creation, rather than being outsmarted by a clever mathman's hoodwink.

On topic, though, being a recent victim of Shell Extension Fraud myself (and with Nikos' acumen, killed the little bastard), I can attest that ShellExView quickly became my new best friend, and is one of the first ports of call in tracking down evil-doers.  For those interested, it requires no installation, and is fully x64 compliant in the registry.  One of those little tools (like image-backups) which should be on all PC's.

(The most obvious approach, by the way, isn't so much divide-and-conquer as it is disable-the-most-recently-installed-things-first school of thought.  But hey, as Alexander dreamed, to his well-fleeced Macedonian compatriot's regret, all roads lead to Rome. )

[nikos]

hey in greece we have invented everything
it was some of the athenian generals that used divide and conquer to kick some persian butt, if my history teacher was right

[irkregent]

One thing I used to do, and need to get back into the habit of doing again, is keep a log of everything installed on my computer.  That way if something starts going awry I can check the log and start uninstalling the most recent entries.

[sethr]

[mmelo]

[Gandolf]

And Retsina, one of my favorite wines.