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The Case of the Father-in-Law’s Scareware

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:31 AM
First published on TechNet on Apr 18, 2015 We all know people, friends and family, that have fallen for the “your system...
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Hunting Down and Killing Ransomware

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:30 AM
First published on TechNet on Jan 02, 2013 Scareware, a type of malware that mimics antimalware software, has been aroun...
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The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:29 AM
First published on TechNet on Oct 28, 2012 A key part of any cybersecurity plan is “continuous monitoring”, or enabling ...
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Windows Azure Host Updates: Why, When, and How

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:27 AM
First published on TechNet on Aug 22, 2012 Windows Azure’s compute platform, which includes Web Roles, Worker Roles, and...
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The Case of the Veeerrry Slow Logons

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:26 AM
First published on TechNet on Jul 01, 2012 This case is my favorite kind of case, one where I use my own tools to solve ...
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Announcing Trojan Horse, the Novel!

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:24 AM
First published on TechNet on May 06, 2012 Many of you have read Zero Day, my first novel.
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The Case of My Mom’s Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:24 AM
First published on TechNet on Jan 03, 2012 As a reader of this blog I suspect that you, like me, are the IT support staf...
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The Case of the Installer Service Error

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:23 AM
First published on TechNet on Nov 27, 2011 This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of th...
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Fixing Disk Signature Collisions

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:22 AM
First published on TechNet on Nov 06, 2011 Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical server...
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The Case of the Mysterious Reboots

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:20 AM
First published on TechNet on Oct 02, 2011 This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system ad...
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The Case of the Hung Game Launcher

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:19 AM
First published on TechNet on Jul 18, 2011 I love the cases people send me where the Sysinternals tools have helped them...
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Troubleshooting with the New Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:18 AM
First published on TechNet on Jul 03, 2011 Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some...
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The Zero Day Book Trailer

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:18 AM
First published on TechNet on May 03, 2011 I just got back the finished version of the video trailer for my new cyber th...
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Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools, Part 3

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:18 AM
First published on TechNet on Apr 17, 2011 In the first post of this series, I used Autoruns, Process Explorer and VMMap...
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Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools, Part 2

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:16 AM
First published on TechNet on Apr 15, 2011 In Part 1 I began my investigation of an example infection of the infamous St...
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Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools, Part 1

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:13 AM
First published on TechNet on Mar 26, 2011 Though I didn’t realize what I was seeing, Stuxnet first came to my attention...
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Zero Day is Here!

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:12 AM
First published on TechNet on Mar 13, 2011 I’m excited to announce that my first novel, a cyber thriller entitled Zero D...
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The Case of the Unusable System

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:12 AM
First published on TechNet on Mar 13, 2011 This post continues in the malware hunting theme of the last couple of posts ...
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The Case of the Sysinternals-Blocking Malware

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:11 AM
First published on TechNet on Mar 06, 2011 Continuing the theme of focusing on malware-related cases (last week I posted...
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The Case of the Malicious Autostart

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:10 AM
First published on TechNet on Feb 26, 2011 Given that my novel, Zero Day, will be published in a few weeks and is based ...
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Announcing Zero Day, the Novel!

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:09 AM
First published on TechNet on Jan 18, 2011 You’ve seen the news if you’re my friend on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, o...
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“Blue Screens” in Designer Colors with One Click

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:09 AM
First published on TechNet on Jan 09, 2011 My last blog post described how to use local kernel debugging to change the c...
7,429

A Bluescreen By Any Other Color

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:09 AM
First published on TechNet on Dec 13, 2010 Note: for an easier way to customize the blue screen’s colors, see my next bl...
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The Cases of the Blue Screens: Finding Clues in a Crash Dump and on the Web

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:07 AM
First published on TechNet on Dec 12, 2010 My last couple of posts have looked at the lighter side of blue screens by sh...
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The Case of the Slow Project File Opens

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:07 AM
First published on TechNet on Dec 06, 2010 If you’ve seen one of my Case of the Unexplained presentations (like the one ...
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LiveKd for Virtual Machine Debugging

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:06 AM
First published on TechNet on Oct 09, 2010 When Dave Solomon and I were writing the 3rd edition of the Windows Internals...
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The Compound Case of the Outlook Hangs

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:05 AM
First published on TechNet on Aug 21, 2010 This case was shared with me by a friend of mine, Andrew Richards, a Microsof...
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The Case of the Random IE Crash

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:04 AM
First published on TechNet on Jun 01, 2010 While I long for the day when I no longer experience the effects of buggy sof...
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The Case of the Printing Failure

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:03 AM
First published on TechNet on Apr 12, 2010 The most interesting cases I receive are those that demonstrate a unique trou...
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Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects – Part 2

MarkRussinovich on Jun 27 2019 12:02 AM
First published on TechNet on Mar 31, 2010 Last time, I covered the limits and how to measure usage of one of the two ke...

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tire11
in The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections on Feb 16 2022 03:47 AM
sometimes connection runs out at a tire shop
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alih182
in “Blue Screens” in Designer Colors with One Click on Feb 16 2022 02:45 AM
this can help you to select the color of your choice as best chair shop.
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Dashrender75
in Printing to on-prem printers from Azure AD-joined devices on Feb 14 2022 07:57 AM
yes you can - using Universal Print - if your printer supports it and you buy all the required licensing.
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ak2766
in Printing to on-prem printers from Azure AD-joined devices on Jan 22 2022 06:28 PM
What if I'm dealing with a SOHO that does not have an on-prem AD - in fact, there are no servers whatsoever in their office. Is it possible then to share a local LAN printer via Azure AD?
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SebastianBecker
in Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects – Part 2 on Dec 12 2021 09:58 PM
Links to the other articles:Physical Memory:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/pushing-the-limits-of-windows-physical-memory/ba-p/723674Virtual Memory:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/pushing-the-limits-of-windows-virtual-memory/ba-p/723750Paged an...
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