thefeedyard.com malware removed with stubware

A big thanks to the folk at Stubware.
I have visited a customer complaining of web pages being misdirected.
To say this was a surprise is an understatement. We only rebuilt the machine from new last week end. We installed Panda AV at build time and we copied users' data from the old disk (probably the source of the infection).
We ran Malwarebytes Antimalware which we have found to be pretty good at removing most things not found in normal AV programs. 17 infected items found but problem not solved.
After further inspection of the problem we found that all links in webpages were being hijacked by something called thefeedyard.com. A quick Google of this gave hints to use Malwarebytes so we ran it again and found a few infections ( probably reinfected since the last scan ).
We also found this reference to Stubware. With some concern that this might be software the likes of many registry cleaners we gave it a go. Downloaded, installed and ran it.
True it listed many items which are captured most of which are legitimate, however a click of a button showed only those that were suspect. 4 items in total. Deleted these and rebooted. Problem cleaned up.
So once again many thanks

Many thanks Nerdy Dork, we recovered MySQL files OK

That title will mean little to most of you but let me explain.
Earlier this year we built a web based program for a customer. We installed it on one of their Windows machines and they are into the swing of using it. Then disaster! The machine fails. Luckily for us the disk was intact and no data was lost which means that the MqSQL database we set up in our program should be intact. The only problem in being how do I get it across onto the rebuilt machine intact.
A quick search on google revealed this link http://www.nerdydork.com/restoring-mysql-innodb-files-on-windows.html which gave us the advice we needed.
Just to short cut we copied the data folder with the .frm files. We also then copied the complete configuration file - we did not worry about editing parts of it.
Database restored. Day saved. Heart rhythm can return to normal. Stress ball out of the window.
Once again a big thanks to Nerdy Dork and all those out there that give freely of their advice.

Where were Microsoft's Quality Assurance Team?

Where were QA when they allowed Vista to exist? Why am I stroppy about this?
Dead simple. I run Vista Business workstation on a 2003 domain. I have IE7 installed.
Today I want to access a site to check for client that their site is accessible remotely. Following what the supplier told us to do yesterday to allow Active X controls to install I got nowhere. Whatever I tried, whatever settings in IE I used, I could not get the Active X to install despite being offered the UAC control to specify the administrator and password credentials. This surely should be enough.
However I thought maybe I should log on as the administrator. So I logged off. 20 minutes later I am still waiting for the machine to offer me the log on screen. This includes having done a cold restart. 30 minutes later and after my second cold restart I have got my system back.
Surely logging off as one user and logging on as another is not difficult. Surely it should not require a reboot of the system? Surely we deserve better from the world's leading software developer.
Let hope QA have been awake during the long overdue release of Win7.