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How to Use Combofix:

- Disable or close all anti-spyware, anti-malware antivirus real-time protection

- Download the latest official ComboFix (4.1mb) save to your desktop

- Close all of softwares , programs running on your computer

- Double click Combofix.exe on your desktop

- When Combofix finished, it will create logs for you.

Download link:

http://www.combofix.org/download.php

via ComboFix | freeware.

Combofix is a freeware (a legitimate spyware remover created by sUBs), Combofix was designed to scan a computer for

known malware, spyware (SurfSideKick, QooLogic, and Look2Me as well as any other combination of the mentioned spyware

applications) and remove them,ComboFix allows the manual removal of spyware infections , It ‘s a specialized

effective cleaning tool, which is useful compared to other malware and spyware removers.After Combofix finished,a report

will be created. You can use this report to search and remove infections which are not automatically removed.

Download (Download) the latest official ComboFix (4.1mb) save to your desktop

via ComboFix | freeware.

I have the identical thing happening on a system we have in our shop.Double clicking the IE icon on the desktop creates a shortcut.Otherwise, the icon is totally normal. Normal icon file, normal rightclick properties.

via Double-clicking IE icon creates shortcut.

Okay, you have created your master piece and burnt it to DVD using DVD SP or iDVD. As you only want this one copy and need hard drive space, you trashed the entire DVD project. Soon after, you find that you now need extra copies of the DVD (typical). What follows is the process for making DVD copies from any DVDs that are not Copyright protected. We will be using the Mac’s Disk Utility application. This article has four sections and covers Leopard, Tiger, Panther and Jaguar.

via How To Make Copies of DVDs.

Everybody knows about some of these boot key combinations, but some of the more obscure combinations have been long forgotten (like how many of us have a Quadra AV and use a TV as a monitor!) – Check these out, you may need one of them someday!

via Mac OS X Things · Startup Keys – Boot Options.

Boot from the Snow Leopard Install DVD Insert the Snow Leopard Install DVD into your Mac’s optical drive. Once the Snow Leopard DVD mounts on the desktop, the Mac OS X Install DVD window should open. If it doesn’t, double-click the DVD icon on the desktop. In the Mac OS X Install DVD window, double-click the ‘Install Mac OS X’ icon.

via How to Perform a Clean Install of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista

To disable the firewall portion of Windows Firewall with Advanced Security from a command prompt

via I Need to Disable Windows Firewall. or here …

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766337%28WS.10%29.aspx

This script will remotely shutdown or reboot PC’s with the network. They don’t need to be logged on.

1 – Create a txt file of the PC’s to be shutdown, 1 name per line

2 – Save the txt file and this script somewhere on a 2008 DC

3 – Alter the script as required

Start Script

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Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Set oFS = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)

strWarning = “This PC is now Shutting Down. ”
strDelay = 10    ‘Delay given in seconds; change this value to your preference, or set it to 0 to give no delay at all

‘Open a text file of computer names
‘with one computer name per line
Set oTS = oFS.OpenTextFile(“C:\Windows\Shutdown_Pcs.txt”)

‘go through the text file
Do Until oTS.AtEndOfStream
‘get the next computer name
‘store it in variable strCompname
strCompname = oTS.ReadLine
WshShell.Run “C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -m \\” & strCompname & ” -s -c ” & Chr(34) & strWarning & Chr(34) & ” -t ” & strDelay

‘Replace the “-r” switch with “-s” to make the computers shutdown instead
Loop
‘close the text file
oTS.Close

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End Script

This script changes a PC local administrator password.

1 – Create a txt file containing the names of the PC’s you want changed, one name per line.

2 – Copy the above file and the script to someplace on a 2008 DC

3 – Drag the txt file on top of the script file

4 – Make sure the password has been changed on the PC’s.

Start script

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‘Change local admin passwords – just drop a txt file with computer name onto the script
‘ Created by Chey Harden on 12.3.07
‘ Create a txt file containing PC names 1per line and drop that file on top of this one to run

On Error Resume Next

Const ForReading = 1
strPass = “NEWPASSWORDGOESHERE”

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(objArgs(0), ForReading)
strComputers = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
arrComputers = Split(strComputers, vbCrLf)

For Each strComputer In arrComputers
Set objShell = CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”)
Set objScriptExec = objShell.Exec(“ping -n 2 -w 1000 ” & strComputer)
Set oReg=GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\default:StdRegProv”)
If InStr(objScriptExec.StdOut.ReadAll, “Reply”) > 0 Then
Err.Clear
Set objUser = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “/Administrator, user”)

If Err.Number Then
WScript.Echo strComputer & “: Incorrect Username”
Err.Clear
Else
objUser.SetPassword strPass
objUser.SetInfo
‘WScript.Echo ” ” & strComputer & ” – Password successfully changed”
End If
Else
WScript.Echo strComputer & ” : Could not find host!”
End If
Next
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End script

Save the script as ???.vbs

Need to restart all the Windows computers on the network? Need a script to add to the domain controller’s Task Scheduler to shut all the computers down at night? This script reads a text file populated with computer names and performs the remote shutdown command on them.

via Remotely restart (or shutdown) computers from a text file of computer names – Script Center – Spiceworks Community.