A Good Phish Is Bad to Find

Today, in my Microsoft-hosted email account, I received an email telling me that my Office 365 account needs validation and has been temporarily suspended. I know that’s baloney because I …

Crypto Viruses: the Online Stickup

You may have heard of a resurgence of the CyptoLocker/CryptoWall ransmomware viruses.  These make me nervous because they can actually encrypt the files on your drive, making them unreadable and …

PowerShell Script to Run a Program Once

I want to deploy CryptoPrevent Portable using the MaxFocus RMM tool. CryptoPrevent sets up software restriction policies to keep programs from running in certain locations. However, it doesn’t actually install …

Block User Folder Executables

One suggestion for blocking the Cryptolocker ransomware virus is to prevent execution of *.exe files in the %AppData% folder and its subfolders. I wanted to make the restriction a little …

Phony AT&T Bill

Got a pretty realistic-looking AT&T billing notice this morning. So how to tell it’s phony? Well beside the fact that I’ve never had a $634 phone bill, all you have …

Getting through Malware Monday

A government-supported workaround to the 2007 DNSChanger virus will expire on Monday, July 9, 2012. To see if your computer is infected, visit www.dns-ok.us. If you are infected, run a …