ShadowExplorer (www.shadowexplorer.com) is an awesome application which I’ve used as a PC Technician many times in the past. It is used to provide a graphical ‘front-end’ interface for a rather complicated command line utility called VSSADMIN.EXE (an internal Windows component) which handles “Volume Shadow Copies” of files made by Windows. These are sort of ‘backups’ in a sense and the Volume Shadow Copy service in Windows is indeed used by various backup software to accomplish backup tasks....
Do you spend any time in a chair like me? I am a software developer and small business owner, so I can spend 20 hours in a chair some days non-stop, multiple days in a row even, but always spend some significant amount of time in a chair 7 days a week, 12 months a year. If you are even remotely a chair warrior as part of your daily routine, then read this! The Chair:...
File this under “not surprised.” The Windows 10 Technical Preview just got a new update, so this morning of course it was nagging me to restart. After taking care of my VMs and open files I did the restart. I couldn’t wait to see how usable, or just plain laughable, this new Cortana thing is going to be. Well I really haven’t messed with it yet, but let me tell you what Windows 10 screwed up that was...
The History I’ve been smoking since high school, making it almost 15 years or so of about 1 pack a day on average. When Nick started getting into vaping, he convinced me to try it as well, this was about 3/4 years ago when I decided to take the plunge and get the ego style vape pen. I liked it at first, it was real gimmicky however. It was nice to smoke inside at work...
#1 Question: Will this protect against new ‘Crypto’ malware such as CryptoDefense, CryptoWall, etc., and their newer v2, v3, and future variants? A number of new CryptoLocker clones have emerged that can also be prevented by CryptoPrevent. The majority of these are protected against by default protections with their older versions, but newer variants are coming out that can only be stopped by the Maximum Protection + Program Filtering (BETA) option, which uses a definitions based system to keep current with...
Just throwing this out there: Malware Removal Training Course Wednesday, October 22nd – 9am ET Thursday, October 23rd – 5pm ET Setup, Config, and Basic Usage Training Course Tuesday, November 11th – 9am ET Wednesday, November 12th – 5pm ET Purchase and sign up here: http://dsupportonline.com/d7ii-webinar-courses/ YES, I will be attending as a backup host and for any Q&A the audience may have during the process. YES, expect to see the new dFunk...
dFunk is the re-incarnation of MalwareScan, a utility which originally began life known as the original d7 – which had little to nothing to do with automating 3rd party utilities, but focused on registry and file system locations where ad/spy/malware would hide. d7/MalwareScan – now dFunk was created to assist the technician who MANUALLY removed viruses/malware, and MANUALLY cleaned up a system when finished. It wasn’t about 3rd party automation, but rather aggregation. The automation...
CryptoPrevent v7.3.x brings some new features, more clarity on protection levels, and improved protection! First, CryptoPrevent now supports SSL/TLS encryption and StartTLS for your SMTP server settings! This enables support for a wider variety of SMTP servers, allowing users requiring this level of encryption to configure their email alert functionality. Previously only SSL was supported. Second, CryptoPrevent’s experimental “Program Filtering” has reached BETA status. Program Filtering compares executable files to a hash based definitions...
Background: Say what you will about Windows 8.x, it has treated me pretty well — so it was a really ‘crazy’ thing when I decided to leave the speed and reliability of a proven Windows 8.1 and throw caution to the wind with an early Windows Technical Preview of the newly dubbed “version 10” (ahem, I m actually referring to version 6.4, or loosely interpreted as Vista v4.) So I was talking with my friends last...
New Webinar: d7II Malware Removal Focusing on malware removal with d7II Take a SURVEY now on what you would like to see and how you would like to see it for this webinar! Sign Up Today! Wednesday, October 22nd – 9am ET Thursday, October 23rd – 5pm ET New Webinar: d7II Setup, Configuration, and Usage First time setup of d7II Configuring d7II for usage in your environment, and personalizing it to your routine. Basic d7II...
