We are going to talk about the setting of your network adapter via command prompt:

To View your TCP/IP settings:

“netsh interface ip show config”

Change TCP/IP Settings:

“netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1.1”

Export your current settings to a txt file:

“netsh –c interface dump > C:’locatio1.txt”

Import your IP settings:

“netsh –f c:’location1.txt”

Set your IP address to DHCP:

“netsh interface ip set address “Local Area Connection” dhcp”

Set your DNS and WINS addresses:

“netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.100”

Set your DNS to dynamically obtain it’s DNS settings:

“netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” dhcp”

As you can tell the “netsh” command is very powerful.

What is a PSD you ask?

psd (Photoshop document), the default file extension of the proprietary file format of Adobe System’s Photoshop program.

A file or template that contains all layers and edits and work a designer has put into the design (drawing). The great thing about a PSD is that it can be exchanged (however can be very very large) and you can open it up and take just a layer or an image out of it and create another project or design.

*Of course there is more and because I am not a designer by trade or by hobby this is the best layman’s explanation I have. So if you are a designer please understand this is a layman’s interpretation.*

You could download one of the Photoshop nock-offs and get the custom filters from the community. Which many do (I know I have.) However it does require just another program to be installed just for the ability to open a PSD.

Here is a trick for your Windows environment (because Adobe Photoshop is available for MAC and Windows)

First Create a new folder set under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\

Download and put psicon.dll in this folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\).

Then add this Registry information to your computer:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs]

“C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psd\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@=”{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}]

@=”Photoshop Icon Handler”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0B6DC6EE-C4FD-11d1-819A-00C04FB69B4D}\InProcServer32]

@=”C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Adobe\\Shell\\psicon.dll”

“ThreadingModel”=”Apartment”

Download Registry File.

After you do this go ahead and reboot your Windows PC. Once booted up try to open a PSD. Should open up in a image editor of your choice.

Now because you do not have Adobe Photoshop installed you will not be able to edit or move the pictures in the file. This will essentially just give you the ability to view the contents.

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I recently ran into an older server not being able to boot into the raid controller on the server. Of course the Raid controller was working (lots of fun testing that) and this server did not support Hot Swap so I was concerned to pull the drives even though they were not currently running (superstitious a bit I think. (perhaps paranoid(part of the developer in me))). I was going through some notes I had taken a good long time ago. When I noticed this little trick.

On POST hit Ctrl-Alt-D repeatedly (of course not so much the bios beeps at you). Apparently this runs some sort of built-in BIOS hard drive diagnostics.

In my case, it happened to print out “Fail. Return Code: 4″. The tech explained that this means “electrical failure”.

So now you know and back to my figuring out how this “electrical failure” happened.

I have been doing allot of work, hacking, updating and testing Microsoft’s new Operating System (Windows 7).

Here is one of many tips you will see in the coming weeks.

It seems someone at Microsoft didn’t like the windows calendar that was included in Windows Vista.

So here is how to add the calendar back into Windows 7:

First, download the ZIP file (link provided at the bottom of this post) and extract it somewhere easily accessible.

Second, navigate to C:\Program Files and create a new folder with the name ‘Windows Calendar’.

Now simply copy the extracted contents of the ZIP file to this new folder. For ease of access, I would recommend pinning the WinCal.exe shortcut to taskbar or start menu. You can do this by right-clicking the icon and selecting Pin to Taskbar.

Windows7Calendar

Enjoy!

Warning some or most of these chemicals are not safe for the environment. Also I am not responsible if you or someone else gets burned dies or has any bodily harm from testing these chemicals. Don’t email me hate letters or etc….

However here is a list of reason and when not to use File Compression:

1. Never use NTFS File Compression on Windows Directories or Program Files

2. If you want to compress your documents make sure to compress them at the my documents/documents level not the USER level. Eg.(C:\Users or C:\Users\YourName) due to the fact you have registry info (User.DAT) in every user profile and will slow down or possibly corrupt your Operating System. Always compress inside the USER (YourName).  Eg.(C:\Users\YourName\Documents (Vista/7) C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\My Documents (Win Xp\2003))

3. When you have a Drive larger than 320 gigs. Why? Really? Typically you have a large disk for storage of files. All Compression will do is slow (snails pace) you backups or storage techniques like copy and paste.

4. Installing any Server or Heavily serviced Applications like oh lets say MSSQL server. First it wont install on a compressed disk and if you end up getting it to it will make you administration as well as use a nightmare.

5. When doing any kind of backup like Norton Ghost or Drive Image or Cloning of any kind. This already takes forever. Compression only makes the hours last longer.

Truth is File Compression is a great tool and is a good idea on smaller drives less than 320 gigs. Use a larger disk for storage even make it ntfs if you want but do not compress it.

I decided to look a little closer than just opening ports up to the world. Or just disabling my firewall all together.

Found I could just easily open up the SQL Server type ports so that those are the only ports open. Of course it still means that Open Databases for all but the rest of the traffic can be stopped. So make sure you lock down your databases and be ready for attack. woot!

@echo =========  SQL Server Ports  ===================
@echo Enabling SQLServer default instance port 1433
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 1433 "SQLServer"
@echo Enabling Dedicated Admin Connection port 1434
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 1434 "SQL Admin Connection"
@echo Enabling conventional SQL Server Service Broker port 4022 
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 4022 "SQL Service Broker"
@echo Enabling Transact-SQL Debugger/RPC port 135
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 135 "SQL Debugger/RPC"
@echo =========  Analysis Services Ports  ==============
@echo Enabling SSAS Default Instance port 2383
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 2383 "Analysis Services"
@echo Enabling SQL Server Browser Service port 2382
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 2382 "SQL Browser"
@echo =========  Misc Applications  ==============
@echo Enabling HTTP port 80
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 80 "HTTP"
@echo Enabling SSL port 443
netsh firewall set portopening TCP 443 "SSL"
@echo Enabling port for SQL Server Browser Service’s ‘Browse’ Button
netsh firewall set portopening UDP 1434 "SQL Browser"
@echo Allowing multicast broadcast response on UDP (Browser Service Enumerations OK)
netsh firewall set multicastbroadcastresponse ENABLE

Here run this to do all your work fast and easy.

Adobe Reader (acrobat)
Adobe Flash Player
Sun’s Java

Those are the top 3 applications being exploited right now.   You may be wondering how you got infected with a fake anti-virus program (for example) without ever clicking on any ad.  See the simple explanation below.

Here’s how Malvertising Works

1. A legit website like CNN.com sells advertising space because it has thousands of views every day. (again, this is just an example)
2. A malicious person or group purchases some of this advertising space and submits an ad that appears perfectly fine to the CNN.com advertising editors.
3. The ad goes live.
4. At some point the ad becomes malicious and starts scanning clients for outdated Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash or Java binaries.
5. Once an exploit is available the malicious ad injects malware into the clients PC.
6. The anti-virus may or may not detect it, it’s really just luck.  If the threat is old, then there’s a good chance it will.  If it’s just a few minutes old then there’s a good chance it won’t.
7. The ad may stay live for minutes, hours, days, etc until someone notifies the web master of that domain.

How can you stop these attacks?

1. Keep your Adobe Reader and Flash Updated.  This is not exactly an easy task since Adobe seems to find security holes every other week.  Open Adobe Reader and click help — check for updates (at the time of this writing I just discovered I had 2 waiting to be downloaded!).  Both programs do automatic update checking, however a lot of people just cancel the update.  Bad idea.
2. When Java alerts you that an update is available then yes…install it.  Lot’s of my clients never install this update.  It’s really important that you do.
3. Configure the Adobe Reader plugin in each of your web browsers not to load PDF’s automatically.
4. Browse the internet with Sandboxie as much as you can.  That goes for everyone who uses the computer.
5. Always download and install your Windows Updates.
6. Follow steps 1 – 5 and you’ll probably never experience the end result of a malicious ad.

Sadly adobe and sun products are constantly getting new updates and do not uninstall the old updates so the potential for re-infection can still happen. If you don’t need these applications or you do not use applications that require these updates then promptly remove them.

You have noticed that even Apple a large supporter of adobe has decided not to add flash or java to their latest OS updates.

Special thanks to the remove-malware.com people for the information.

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IIS is typically by default installed and assigned on the system drive C:\inetpub. However you want to move it to D:\intepub. So you start down the whole copy and paste which may seem like it will work however you still have to touch multiple Registry keys and paths. Well here is a simple script to make your IIS moving a snap.

Also if you copy this make sure to name the file a .Bat file for Batch… Just in case.

REM PLEASE BE AWARE: SERVICING (I.E. HOTFIXES AND SERVICE PACKS) WILL STILL REPLACE FILES
REM IN THE ORIGINAL DIRECTORIES. THE LIKELIHOOD THAT FILES IN THE INETPUB DIRECTORIES HAVE
REM TO BE REPLACED BY SERVICING IS LOW BUT FOR THIS REASON DELETING THE ORIGINAL DIRECTORIES
REM IS NOT POSSIBLE.

@echo off
IF "%1" == "" goto err
setlocal
set MOVETO=%1:\

REM simple error handling if drive does not exist or argument is wrong
IF NOT EXIST %MOVETO% goto err

REM Backup IIS config before we start changing config to point to the new path
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd add backup beforeRootMove

REM Stop all IIS services
iisreset /stop

REM Copy all content
REM /O – copy ACLs
REM /E – copy sub directories including empty ones
REM /I – assume destination is a directory
REM /Q – quiet

REM echo on, because user will be prompted if content already exists.
echo on
xcopy %systemdrive%\inetpub %MOVETO%inetpub /O /E /I /Q
@echo off
REM Move AppPool isolation directory
reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WAS\Parameters /v ConfigIsolationPath /t REG_SZ /d %MOVETO%inetpub\temp\appPools /f

REM Move logfile directories
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.applicationHost/sites -siteDefaults.traceFailedRequestsLogging.directory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles"
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.applicationHost/sites -siteDefaults.logfile.directory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\logs\logfiles"
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.applicationHost/log -centralBinaryLogFile.directory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\logs\logfiles"
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.applicationHost/log -centralW3CLogFile.directory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\logs\logfiles"

REM Move config history location, temporary files, the path for the Default Web Site and the custom error locations
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.applicationhost/configHistory -path:%MOVETO%inetpub\history
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/asp -cache.disktemplateCacheDirectory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\temp\ASP Compiled Templates"
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression -directory:"%MOVETO%inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files"
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set vdir "Default Web Site/" -physicalPath:%MOVETO%inetpub\wwwroot
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='401'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='403'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='404'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='405'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='406'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='412'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='500'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='501'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:httpErrors /[statusCode='502'].prefixLanguageFilePath:%MOVETO%inetpub\custerr

REM Make sure Service Pack and Hotfix Installers know where the IIS root directories are
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathWWWRoot /t REG_SZ /d %mOVETO%\inetpub\wwwroot /f
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathFTPRoot /t REG_SZ /d %MOVETO%\inetpub\ftproot /f
REM Do the same for x64 directories
if not "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" == "" reg add HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathWWWRoot /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %MOVETO%inetpub\wwwroot /f
if not "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" == "" reg add HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathFTPRoot /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %MOVETO%inetpub\ftproot /f

REM Restart all IIS services
iisreset /start
echo.
echo.
echo ===============================================================================
echo Moved IIS7 root directory from %systemdrive%\ to %MOVETO%.
echo.
echo Please verify if the move worked. If so you can delete the %systemdrive%\inetpub directory.
echo If something went wrong you can restore the old settings via
echo     "APPCMD restore backup beforeRootMove"
echo and
echo     "REG delete HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WAS\Parameters\ConfigIsolationPath"
echo You also have to reset the PathWWWRoot and PathFTPRoot registry values
echo in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\InetStp.
echo ===============================================================================
echo.
echo.
endlocal
goto success

REM error message if no argument or drive does not exist
:err
echo.
echo New root drive letter required.
echo Here an example how to move the IIS root to the F:\ drive:
echo.
echo MOVEIISROOT.BAT F
echo.
echo.

:success

This should take care of your IIS moving needs. Do not forget to reboot to make sure settings are happy.

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