There is this virus that is all the rage on antiquated windows XP systems in Ecuador. It spreads via flash drives by hiding your folders and replacing them with identically-named shortcuts that point to a hidden executable that then propagates the virus.
Assuming you have decent antivirus software running on your system, it will catch this virus and delete all the malicious files. But what it forgets to do is revert your folders back to their previous, non-hidden state.
To unhide the hidden folders, open a command prompt (dos prompt) and enter the following command, where X corresponds to the drive letter for your flash drive.
attrib /D /S -r -s -h X:\*
Voila!
?Just 27 hours before a deadline that could have shut down the federal government at midnight Friday, Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement on a $1 trillion spending bill that will keep the lights on through the end of the fiscal year in September, 2012. They still have to work out the particulars of another sticking point — a separate measure extending a temporary payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. So what did both parties gain, and give up, to break the impasse? Here, a brief guide: