got infected by this virus a month ago and unfortunately my thumb drive got infected too.

jay.exe caught my attention when i plugged my thumb drive to my notebook. good thing vista has this feature that lists all the possible runnable file or folder. this laid out my suspicion. i immediately checked for infections and so happy that my notebook was virus free.

my gladness ended when i noticed something different with my desktop. title bar of whichever application i was running changed to ‘jaymyka.wen9.com’. and all of a sudden, i didn’t have access to drive c. the hell! i immediately searched for answers and it turned out that no doubt it was caused by virus.

i turned off my autoplay in:

1. type in ‘run’ gpedit.msc

2. go to computer configuration then system

3. enable ‘Turn off Autoplay’

4. Select in ‘All Drives’

that didn’t solve my problem yet. i scanned for viruses and found nothing. instead i searched for the following files:

1. jay.exe

2. mveo.exe

and deleted both. did the same thing for my thumb drive. everything worked well since then.

wait, i also deleted autorun.inf.

lesson, it pays to be vigilant. paying attention to details too.

it was high time for my awaited migration of data from excel to database. it was hassle free until i restored the migrated data to our server. it turned out that mysql reflects MS Windows’ case insensitivity (unlike linux which is case sensitive). my hibernate created tables should be like ‘This’ as i declared in mapping files. but instead, they became like ‘this’.

in order to get through this, add the line:
lower_case_table_names=0

in mysql’s my.ini

next, after redeploying the webapp, database user privileges were reset to ‘NO’. dunno where it came from. i did the same procedures, and then…

here’s a shortcut if you want to give your user all the privileges on your database. in mysql query browser key in:
grant all privileges on DBname.* to ‘DBuser’@'localhost’ identified by ‘DBpassword’;

and execute.

yay! it’ working.