Windows 8.1 Post-Install Tasks
I made these notes almost a year ago after upgrading a Windows XP Home machine to Windows 8.1. Some still apply today. Note that this is about a non-domain install …
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 …
MaxFocus Script to Check for CryptoWall Infection
The CryptoWall ransomware virus is getting a lot of attention lately but this is one angle I haven’t seen covered: how to get an alert in the MaxFocus (formerly GFI) …
List Listening Ports
I need this so often and always have to go looking for it. To list local listening ports with the owning process ID: netstat -ano | find /i "listening" And …
Register PC on Brother Scanner
A client reported that his PC was disappearing from the Scan to PC list on his Brother 7065 multi-function device every day, apparently after logging off. When he logged on …
Invoke PowerShell from the Command Line with Parameters
There don’t seem to be too many examples of invoking PowerShell from the command line when the PowerShell command itself has parameters. Here’s one that should work (with a line …
Can’t Email Essentials Health Report Since Daylight Savings Time
In the U.S., daylight savings time ended on November 2 at 2:00am. Which means that at 2:00am, it was suddenly 1:00am. At that moment, Essentials lost its ability to send …
GFI Script to Show Who Is Logged in Locally
GFI workstations only check in every 30-60 minutes, but it would still be helpful to see if anyone was logged on to a workstation at the most recent check-in. If …
GFI Script to Show Windows Update Settings
I wanted to be able to quickly check the Windows Update settings for a bunch of workstations using the GFI MAX RemoteManagement dashboard. I didn’t want to change the Windows …