Why am I in the same shit hole?

Did you ever wake up in the morning and first thing that comes to your mind is a statement?:
"Here I go again! Prepare myself, go to work, work my ass all day, eat, work, go home, rest, sleep, wait for payday, pay bills, enjoy with what's left, then do the same shit 'til the next payday."

Then suddenly, a question kicks in: "Until when can I do this?"
It all falls down to the ultimate question!

"WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?!"

Was I born to play? Then study, then get a degree, then get a job, work and get paid, pay bills, perhaps have a family, and pass the same legacy to my children, and the cycle goes on?

Why was I not born to be like other people who don't do these things that are exhausting?!
Why was I not born with a silver spoon like others were?

Guess what!? Winners are not born! They are made!
Who makes them? Themselves.
And who can destroy them? Themselves as well.

Patience and Hardwork will make you succeed.
That is so true! However, it may depend on how you apply it and where you apply it.

Ask yourself: "Have been patient and working hard to achieve your goal?"
If yes, then ask: "Have I acheived my goal?"
Not yet? then "Am I any closer in acheiving my goal?"

NO?!
Then maybe I am applying my patience and Hardwork the wrong way, and the wrong place.

"I just need to be patient. My time will come!"
Wake up, friend! Doing the same thing over and again, and expecting a different result is foolishness! (Einstein)

You can't do what you've been doing for the past how many years, and expect that one day, you wake up and everything's different. You need change!

The more of your own money, time, and effort you use,
the longer it takes to get you there!
Winners are paid by the results, not by the time spent working.
This is why no matter how good you are in performing your job, you're not given an extra pay.
Because you are paid for your time. Your time that was used to make your boss, and your company succeed. Perhaps you can count on an increase, or even a promotion, but it just means more will be expected from you. More time, more results! But how will you be rewarded? By a "Great Job!" and the same payment. Payment for your time.

How much time do you have?
You only have 24 ours in a day. Doctors recommend to sleep 8 hours. Rarely happens but it would be great if you could at least get 5 hours. That gives you an extra 19hours. 9 of that would be the time you spend working. Most often than not, you work more than that. But then you still need to prepare, eat, travel. So how much time do you really have left for yourself or your loved ones?

Your job is just killin' it! You are a slave. You keep chasing your own tail but you end up going in circles. This is what we call the Rat Race! You need to get out of it and get out of it fast.
I can show you the way but you have to walk through the door yourself.

send me a message and start getting out of there... NOW!
jpalpano@gmail.com

PC Shuts Down

I was infected by this annoying virus and I was disappointed AVG was not able to detect it.
An indicator of this virus is that you PC suddenly shuts down, specially when you open your command prompt (cmd).

One more way you could detect if your PC is infected is by going to the
Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete), then going to the 'Processes' tab and seeing if you can find a process named:

bar311.exe
password_viewer.exe
photos.zip.exe
pc-off bat

If any of the above appears, then you are infected.
Googling the solution, let me share with you how to remove it.

Manual Removal:
1. Go to Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL then kill (end process) password_viewer.exe or bar311.exe or photos.zip.exe...

2. Access the regedit
Go to Start Menu > Run
Type regedit and press Enter key

From the left navigation pane, go to the ff:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
"Userinit"="userinit.exe
This should only be userinit.exe because this is used by Windows when
you log-in...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Double click on each of the following and supply the last number as the
value:
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000
"ShowSuperHidden"=dword:00000001

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"autorun"="c:\Windows\pc-off.bat" -> remove "c:\Windows\pc-off.bat" or delete
the autorun key.

3. Pull-up Windows Explorer from accessories.
Plug in the thumbdrives / usb flash disks that you have been using. These probably are infected already.
Do not let autorun open it because if the USB drive is infected, it would infect your pc again.
Do not open your USB drive using My Computer as well.
Using Windows Explorer, click on the USB drive from the left navigation pane.

Delete the following files from your USB drive:

autorun.inf
password_viewer.exe
bar311.exe

If you have more than 1 USB drive, do this for all of them.

4. Remove the virus totally from your hard disk.
Open notepad and paste the ff:

@echo off
del /a /f c:\Windows\bar311.exe
del /a /f
c:\Windows\password_viewer.exe
del /a /f c:\Windows\photos.zip.exe
del
/a /f c:\Windows\pc-off.bat
pause

Save the file as remove.bat
(File > Save As. From the Save As File Type, select All Files)

This would run a command prompt pop-up allowing you to see if your PC still has the virus as well as how it is being removed.
Press Any Key and the pop-up will close.

5. You're Done.