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7 More Useful Tips You May Not Know

We recently published an article explaining a number of useful Windows tips – 7 Useful Tips You May Have Forgotten – and this article carries on the same theme with more useful tips. This tip works for...

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5 Ways To Boot Into Safe Mode & Why

Safe Mode, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Just kidding, paraphrasing the song… War (what is it good for). Safe Mode can be a very useful mechanism to help diagnose issues and rid the system...

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How To Remove McAfee Antivirus

There’s one piece of software that I come across on customers’ computers more frequently than I would wish to and that’s McAfee antivirus, known as McAfee Total Protection. It’s so prevalent that it...

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How To Turn Off Fast Startup Windows 10

I learned something new about my Windows 10 and 11 computers recently. Were you aware that your computer does not turn off all the way when you shutdown your computer. That’s right, there is a default...

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4 Handy Windows Tips

Here are four Windows tips you may or may not know about. If the latter, you might find them handy: Hyperlinks turn text into a clickable link that then opens a specific website. To create a hyperlink...

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Microsoft To Extend Windows 10’s Life?

There is a growing demand for Microsoft to extend support for Windows 10, largely initiated by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). Support for Windows 10 is currently set to expire in October...

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How To Change Download Location In Windows

I was setting up my mom’s new computer this week and noticed that the second hard drive was much bigger. The smaller one had the Windows operating system which is the C: drive but the other one had...

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Microsoft Copilot: Your AI Assistant

Copilot is an AI-driven app, with similar functionality to ChatGPT, that is already available in some Windows 11 builds and will soon be rolled out to all Windows 11 users. I believe Copilot will also...

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How To Reassign Mouse Button

If you ever want to reassign the left and right mouse buttons then I will show you how. This came up a few days ago when I was working on my laptop and main computer at the same time. I don’t know what...

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How To Check Windows Recovery Environment

The Windows Recovery Environment provides several options that play an integral role in helping to repair a misbehaving operating system. Windows sets up the Recovery Environment on a separate hidden...

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How To Change Calculator Theme In Windows

Many of us use the Calculator on our Windows computer. Did you know that you can change the Windows calculator theme? That is right! If you want to change over to the dark side, this article will show...

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How To Set Printer Times

It has been a while since I purchased a new printer and was very annoyed when it would continually go into sleep mode. Having to turn on the printer before printing remotely from my mobile devices and...

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What Is Your DNS?

DNS stands for Domain Name System a protocol that is set by your internet provider. DNS is responsible for translating our human expressions like www.google.com into a unique IP address that computers...

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Microsoft News – Extended Security Updates

Windows has just released good news for those who want to keep Windows 10 a while longer and also for some users who could not upgrade because of a “Compatibility Hold”. If you are one of those who...

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Attacking Emotet’s Control Flow Flattening

Sweeping aside one obfuscation technique in a notorious strain of malware

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Remove All The Callbacks – BlackByte Ransomware Disables EDR Via RTCore64.sys...

A fresh exploration of the malware uncovers a new tactic for bypassing security products by abusing a known driver vulnerability

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Signed driver malware moves up the software trust chain

The criminals signed their AV-killer malware, closely related to one known as BURNTCIGAR, with a legitimate WHCP certificate

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‘AuKill’ EDR killer malware abuses Process Explorer driver

Driver-based attacks against security products are on the rise

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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in widely used security driver

A false-alarm incident involving Panda Security software leads to three very real CVEs

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It’ll be back: Attackers still abusing Terminator tool and variants

First released in May 2023, an EDR killer – and the vulnerable Zemana drivers it leverages – are still of interest to threat actors, along with variants and ported versions

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