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Recently I set up a copy / backup site on localhost using Xampp (Windows 10). It all went smoothly until I tried to log in to the Admin, which redirected back to the main site for some unknown reason. Then,…
A collection of hackers left their calling cards here over the last week or so. I had been hacked, sometimes for the fun of it, other times with love.
Recently I received a notification warning of a Wordpress vulnerability in version 4.7.1 and was advised to update to a recently patched edition. Sadly I thought I had done this, but apparently not. The hackers were quick to take advantage.
The result was subsequently finding this site had been hacked ‘just for fun’. The following image is what it looked like. Thank you General Hacker and friends.
Upon looking at the content that had changed, I found that it had been hacked several times over within a period of a few days, sometimes with love. It was stacks on hacks…
Recently Windows on my laptop failed to load. Safe mode and all other options refused to work.
Just as the welcome screen was due to arrive, the system would reboot, so it wasn’t even possible to read what the problem was. Eventually I was able to find an option using the menu by pressing F8 that prevented rebooting on a system failure.
This lead to the following error:
STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file) \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
The most recent problem I have faced with my pc was getting a Virtualbox XP guest to access the Windows 7 host network.
There were a few examples that claimed to work, but they usually had Linux Ubuntu as the host system and so the options and settings were different and therefore not applicable.
Recently I had a recurring problem whereby some files on the usb drive attached to the router would go missing. They still existed on the drive, but were hidden. Accessing the parent folder, it would be indicated that there were zero files within the folder.
Recently I tried to set up FTP access to my Cisco Linksys WAG320N router but with no success. Searching Google, I was able to locate several forums and articles with incomplete solutions which were of no help.
Eventually I was able to figure out how to do this and decided to post my solution online.
