Archive for July, 2005
Home Search Assistent Removal
The misspelling in “assistant” is on purpose. Apparently the authors of this nasty little trojan/spyware app didn’t spell all that well.
The HomeSearchAssistent application creates copies of itself — thousands of them — and dumps them into c:\windows and c:\windows\system32. It’s quite painful to remove it, as it involves some direct removal of the duplicates.
The [...]
To the fix-and-flip newbies
This is part rant. Be warned.
The number of “investors” in the real estate market of late has been growing. If memory serves (from the WSJ sometime this month), it’s at 23% nationwide, compared with ~16% as recently as 2000. This metric is a percentage of purchasers.
This means that there are a lot of newbies [...]
Rental Car Niche
You ever try to rent the truck at Home Depot? It’s a bitch, and the darn thing is $19 for the first 90 minutes and a per hour fee thereafter. Not all stores have one, and the ones that do only have one.
A small shop across the street from a Home Depot that rented only [...]
