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It turns out that the book I was reading (CompTIA Strata – Green IT by Manning) made the test out to be a bit more difficult than it really was. The questions were mostly in regards to actual technology implementation or energy efficiency, rather than knowing mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol as I was lead to believe. I ended up getting an 88% and only took 15 of the allotted 75 minutes to complete the 30 question test.

I recommend anybody that wants to be able to prove that they at least know what virtualization is along with some energy efficiency practices and green procedures are take the test, I think it’s only $100 which is one of CompTIA’s cheaper exams.

With a recent promotion by CompTIA I was able to get a voucher for the Strata Green exam for about $50 while purchasing my practical A+ voucher.   The content seems pretty easy yet very applicable to companies making moves to be more green or cost efficient.  I recently finished reading CompTIA Strata Green IT by William Manning and it’s a mere 120 pages of content at a font size of what one may find in a pre-teen novel.  It doesn’t seem like there are many online resources for the test so the $26 is really the only option for study materials.  We’ll see how this goes.

It looks like there’s a new virus spreading around USF disguised as a resume which is working very well on our clients which I’ve so far seen coming from creativeness@rassil.com (we’re working with ADEx admins to setup a trap for incoming mail which should help alleviate some of the hit).   The ‘resume’ is attached as ‘resume.html’, which turns out to be a little blurb of JavaScript, which is running hex code.  The hex code when converted to ascii can be found to be pointing to (do not go here)

http://www.residentiebeveiligingstechniek.nl/x.html

which then runs

http://brocuphdislock.cz.cc/scanner10/?afid=24

and

http://fast-addon.in/news/index.php?map=rect&vid=4&bid=151&a=get&action=ecard&e=hidden

When a client becomes infected they will see what looks like a Windows XP explorer window containing what you would normally see if you opened ‘My Computer,’ except in this case there are little red flashing icons indicating malware on all drives.  We actually had one customer stifle it’s progress by pulling the plug on her machine before the virus could be fully installed.

This seems to be being caught by Malwarebytes’ AntiMalware successfully, so Safemode as an administrator and scan away!