How to Remove ‘Orkut is Banned You Fool’ Virus from your Computer

Are you getting “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write the program guess who did? MUHAHAHA!!” notice in a pop up window while trying to open Orkut? If yes, then your computer has been infected by W32/AHKHeap virus and it will continue showing this banned notice until and unless you remove it from your computer. Though this virus is not harmful to your system, it’s irritating and annoying since it displays this banned pop up window each and every time you hit Orkut.com on your web browser. Here I’m giving the simple and quick way to remove ‘Orkut is Banned you Fool’ virus from your system.

This virus is called W32 or AhKHeap virus. Generally it spreads through removable drives like your pen drive. Once you open or browse the virus infected folder using infected pen drives, the virus will get installed on your computer automatically in a background process. This virus also modifies your system registry values to get activated on system restarts. But it does not affect your system performance or hack any of your personal informations, it just stops you from browsing Orkut by showing such messages. Follow below steps to remove this virus and browse your favourite social network as usual.

How to Remove “Orkut is Banned You Fool” Virus

1. Start Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on your system.
2. Navigate to Processing tab.
3. Look for the service name SVCHOST.EXE (in first column). There will many instances of SVCHOST.EXE, but you have to look for the one that’s associated with your windows login name.
4. Select it and click on End Process option to deactivate that virus temporarily.

Now you have deactivated the virus temporarily and can login to Orkut without any problems. But once you restart your computer, virus will get activated again to create such problems. So, we need to remove it permanently. Remember to proceed to the following steps, once you are done with the above step.

1. Go to Start >> Run on your computer, type Regedit in that given box and hit Enter.
2. This will open your Registry values window. (Important : DO NOT modify any value there, else your computer might stop working!)
3. Press Ctrl+F to open the search box. Type heap41a and hit Enter.
4. It will show you some registry values infected with the virus (usually you will get two values)
5. Select and delete all those results.
6. You are done.

Now we have disabled the virus in the first step and then removed the infected registry values in the second step. But we have not deleted the virus from our computer yet, Follow the below steps to remove all virus instances from your computer.

1. Go to Start >> Run on your computer, type C:\heap41a in the box and hit Enter.
2. A folder window will pop up. Go to Tools >> Folder Options >> View >> Hidden Files and Folders and select the “Show hidden files and folders” option.
3. Now delete all files from that folder. (Press Shift+Delete while deleting file in stead of only Delete button. Doing this will remove those files from your computer permanently.)
4. Restart your computer and you are DONE.

Now you should have cleaned the “Orkut is Banned You Fool” virus from your computer. You won’t get any “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write the program guess who did? MUHAHAHA!!” alerts while logging into Orkut. As I said before, this W32/AHKHeap virus is not harmful, but annoying. I would recommended you to use some latest antivirus on your computer, so that no Orkut worm or virus can affect you or your Orkutting experience.

What to do When Someone Steals your Photos to use in His Orkut Album?

Stealing photos from someone’s Orkut album and using them in own albums is not something new to Orkut users. Many Orkut users has found Orkut accounts using their photos without their permission. Most of the time strangers do this type of things but if you have already locked your album to strangers, it must be one of your Orkut friend’s act. creating a new profile with those images is a matter of 10 minutes or so. If you are a victim of this, you should be knowing that it’s your responsibility to take care of your pictures. Anyways, let’s know what we can do when we find someone on orkut using your photos in his albums.

To protect Orkut user’s privacy, Orkut introduced album lock feature but there were scripts to bypass Orkut album lock . Later Orkut disabled right clicking on album pictures, however you can still save Orkut album pictures. So, it’s pretty easy for someone to download your photos on to his computer and make a new profile using them.

If you are facing this problem, the first step you can take is to lock your photo albums and scrapbook.

• Login to your Orkut profile.
• Navigate to Settings >> Privacy >> Allow content to be accessed by >> change the settings so that only your friends can access your album and scrapbook.
• Click on Save Changes to save the changes you have made.
• You are done.

Now we have Locked your album, so that no stranger can access them. Now it’s time to take appropriate actions to remove or delete that fake Orkut profile.

Orkut takes it user’s Privacy Issues seriously. If you find someone using your photos, follow the below steps to take appropriate actions against that profile.

1. Navigate to his Orkut profile
2. On the left hand sidebar, you can find a link Report Abuse, click on it



1. You will get a pop up with few options. Check third option identity / personal information
4. Now check the first option pretends to be me from the right hand side menu.
5. Click on Report to forward the complaint to Orkut for further investigation
6. You are done.

Now the next step is to contact Orkut using their . Try to provide as much information as you can while contacting Orkut team.

Once you are done with above two things, ask all your friends to follow the first step and report abuse that fake profile. The more abusing reports they get against one profile, account removal chances will be more. Now you should wait for 2-3 days and Orkut team will contact you via email about the status of your complaint. Normally fake profiles get deleted within 1-2 days.

So, this is what you can do when someone steals your photos and uses them in his orkut album. You should always lock your photon albums and scrapbook to protect your privacy and avoid such unpleasant incidents.

Send Scrap To ALL Friends with Orkut Cute 9.4.27

Orkut Cute 9.4.27 has been designed to make Orkut scrapping easy. It’s a desktop software that you have to download and install on your computer. After successful installation, you can see a small icon in your system tray area. Simply double click on that icon to launch Orkut cute. Orkut Cute can not only make scrapping easy, but it can also allow you to send unlimited scraps to all your friends at a go. If you were looking for a software to send scrap to all friends, Orkut Cute is your answer.

Orkut Cute Key Features:

1. Send a common scrap to all your fiends
2. Get notified when someone sends you a scrap
3. Ability to store standard scraps, so that you don’t need to type them again
4. Can send scraps to selected friends also (Ignoring scrap to all feature)
5. Write $nc$ or $nl$ anywhere in your scrap and that will get replaced with your friend’s name (“Bapun” will see that as “Bapun” and “Rahul” as “Rahul”)
6. Store a handful of standard messages and select the “Random Messages” option. This will send all your stored messages to your friends and as the result, your friends will receive different messages.

This is really an useful Orkut software and a must for you if you are an Orkut maniac. This has been certied by Softpedia to be 100% clean with no virus, spyware or malware threats.

Download Orkut Cute 9.4.27

Note : This version of Orkut Cute is in Portuguese language. I strongly doubt if this tool is having a English version.

Planning to Delete your Orkut Account? Read This First!!

If you are planning to delete your Orkut profile, I would recommend NOT to do so. There is not a single valid reason that you can show me for your account deletion. If you are concerned about privacy issues and want to get removed from Orkut database for the same, you need to know first. If you don’t get enough time to use your Orkut profile and hence want to delete your profile, let me tell you that Orkut don’t penalize for inactivity. You can comeback anytime, even after years and start using your Orkut profile as before. But if you have finally decided to get rid of Orkut and delete your account, read the following four points that you must follow before deleting your Orkut account.

1. Inform Orkut Friends First : your decision and let them know that you are going to delete your profile. Since they are your friends, it’s your responsibility to let them know your final good bye.

2. Backup Orkut Friends List : After account deletion, you won’t get any chance to find your Orkut friend’s contact addresses. So, back up Orkut friend’s contact details before deleting your account.

3. Transfer Communities : If you have created any communities, transfer them to someone before removing your profile. You have created those communities yourself and those took decent time to groom. Would you like to leave them as orphans?

4. Check Messages : You might have some important messages in your Orkut message box. Double check all messages so that you don’t miss any important message.

The above steps should be a MUST TO DO before deleting your Orkut account. You should look at other Orkut features as well and see if you have forgotten anything. After account removal, you won’t be able to restore your profile, so think twice before pressing “Delete my Account” button.

Forgot Orkut Password? How to Recover Orkut account Password!

There are people who tend to forget their password frequently and on the other hand there are people who can’t remember their Orkut password while trying to sign in after a long time. Well, this is normal and there is nothing to worry about. Anyone can easily recover forgotten Orkut password by following some simple steps. But those simple steps require you to answer your security question and some other informations. Even if you don’t remember the answer to your security question anymore, you can use your secondary email address to verify your identity. Let’s know the step by step process to recover forgotten Orkut password.

Recover Forgotten Orkut Password

1. Go to www.orkut.com and click on I cannot access my account.

2. Clicking on that link will take you to Orkut password Assistance page. Select the first option called I forgot my password from the available options. Selecting the above option will show few more options like Reset your password now, Password Assistance Page and another Password Assistance Page (for Orkut users who don’t have any Google account associated with their orkut profile).

3. Click on a Password Assistance Page, depending on your Orkut profile’s relationship with Google.

4. Now it will ask you to provide your email address associated with orkut. Write your email address associated with orkut in the given box.

5. Fill up the captcha form to proceed. Now Google will take necessary steps to reset your password.

6. If you are not a Gmail user, Google will send you a email with complete instruction on how to reset your Orkut password.

7. If you are a Gmail user (have associated a Google account with Orkut), then following rules will be applied on you.

1. If you have NOT signed in or tried to sign in within past 48 hours and have a secondary email address associated with your Google account, Google will send you an email with complete instructions on how to reset your password.
2. If you have signed in or tried to sign in within past 48 hours, you have to wait for 5 days before being able to reset your password. After the specified time, click on Password Assistance Page, enter your email, fill up captcha and answer your security question. You will be now redirected to a page where you can reset your password to new ones without providing the old forgotten password.

8. You are done.

Remember that password is very confidential and worth remembering. Choose a simple and rare password for your account, that’s easy to remember but difficult for others to guess. But even if you forget orkut account password, you can follow the above steps to reset password and recover your Orkut account.