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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/05
Brilliant:
This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also (if selected in options).
Source:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows
Cool, as they now can fuzz Windows Defender and have Microsoft make it better so all Windows 8+ users can profit from it.
Source: [WayBack] What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
Repository: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
Via: [WayBack] WAT? – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Source:
History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:
Via:
All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.
So add $MFT to this list:
The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON, NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.
In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:
nul is not a valid name in windows 10, so cargo fails to update the registry, and then aborts whatever it was doing (building, searching, ect.).
I think this project should be re-published to crates.io under a new name, something like null-strings perhaps?
https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-indexBTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/15
PatchCleaner just cleaned out 10-20 gigabyte per VM for most of my Windows 7-8.x VMs. After that, the updates still worked fine.
So it indeed does:
Safely remove all orphaned patch and installer files from your windows installer directory in one easy click
–jeroen
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/patchcleaner/
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/01
Details: Technology Chatting with Jack: SOLVED! – High CPU Usage of Microsoft Security Essentials
TL;DR:
if MsMpEng.exe uses a lot of CPU, it it to it’s own exclusion list.
–jeroen
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