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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...
2,897

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 ...
1,704

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 ...
1,333

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...
1,381

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...
1,539

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...
1,396

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...
1,413

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...
1,638

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...
1,953

“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...
1,553

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...
1,722

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 ...
2,894

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...
1,882

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...
1,427

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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Marco77
in Troubleshooting Windows AutoPilot (level 300/400) on Sep 09 2021 03:54 AM
Hi The link to the AutoPilot.wprp.zip file are broken, could you add the file to your Github? Thanks
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in Windows 10 Pre-Upgrade Validation using SETUP.EXE on Aug 03 2021 07:10 AM
Hi Michael, After running below command, I do not get any result, it just show white window Windows 10 setup with no result whatsoever on it. SETUP.EXE /Auto Upgrade /NoReboot /DynamicUpdate Disable /Compat ScanOnly How do I know why Windows 10 upgrade is stopping? As there is nothing in in CompactS...
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in What is Windows Update for Business? on Jul 06 2021 12:21 PM
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in Microsoft Update Catalog site updated on Jul 02 2021 09:31 AM
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TomWest
in Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles on Jun 19 2021 06:58 AM
but is there some way to get a list of all processes to try and find which process is doing this? Wish there was a "Handle Count" column option beside Processes in main Process Explorer list so I could sort and see.You can ask Task Manager to display the # Handles of each process. Makes diagnosing t...
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