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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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...

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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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MarkRussinovich on 06-27-2019 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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in Get free, hands-on experience with Windows 10 virtual labs on 01-11-2020

Clicking on the https://aka.ms/w10virtuallabs link takes me to the same page.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/get-free-hands-on-experience-with-windows-10-virtual-labs/ba-p/167013 Is this because I'm using a personal account instead of my work account?

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in The Case of the Father-in-Law’s Scareware on 12-19-2019

Unfortunately the Phishing attacks are still among the most popular and most effective type of attacks used in cyber attacks today

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in Get free, hands-on experience with Windows 10 virtual labs on 11-02-2019

I just received an email from Microsoft with this link (today is 11/2/2019) because I downloaded Window10 for testing. Microsoft, why would you continue to seed this info if the site isn't active or Labs are not available. All the things that is wrong with Microsoft is shown right here. LInks double...

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in Get free, hands-on experience with Windows 10 virtual labs on 10-06-2019

Thank you. very useful stuff. wish I could use them with a non-work/school Microsoft account too.

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in Get free, hands-on experience with Windows 10 virtual labs on 09-23-2019

I was really excited to see these Windows 10 labs. Note, the "I was". I clicked on the link to get directly to those aforementioned labs, go the landing page and clicked on one of them. Only to not go directly to that lab. I got another landing page where if I search for "win 10", "Win 10" or "windo...

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

Hunting Down and Killing Ransomware

The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections

Windows Azure Host Updates: Why, When, and How

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