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8,208

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 ...
5,870

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 ...
4,041

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...
5,459

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...
5,164

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 ...
6,505

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...
5,801

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...
6,480

“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...
5,624

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...
6,263

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 ...
8,374

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...
5,861

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...
5,230

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...
5,060

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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