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Year: 2012

Repeat a Jailbreak and Unlock on iPhone 3G iOS 4.2.1 (Death to Error 1015!)

I wanted to give my iPhone 3G, which I had previously jailbroken and unlocked, to a friend. So naturally, I went into Settings, General, Reset, and selected “Erase All Content and Settings”. Bad mistake. After reboot, the iPhone was stuck in recovery mode. Worse mistake. I then plugged the iPhone…

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Recover From The “win64/Sirefef.W” Virus Infection

Recently, the Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) running on my Windows 7 64bit desktop detected the “win64/Sirefef.W” virus. The “win64/Sirefef.W” (or variants like “win64/Sirefef.Y” and “win64/Sirefef.B”) is a trojan which can install rootkits and other malicious programs onto your machine, in addition to providing security backdoors and other nasty stuff. On…

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