This is one of the more obscure posts I have ever written, but if you need to do this I think this is the only post on the web with an end to end walkthrough of setting up a reasonably user friendly Win32 TreeView right click menu. The great thing about C and C++ is Continue Reading
This plugin was initially published by Magic Box Software, but I want to give a more detailed description, so I am posting it here. In Visual Studio 2013 Cordova Tools CTP 3.1 and VS 2015 there is a bit of a problem – a gotcha. Every file in the root of the VS project and Continue Reading
Microsoft plays a practical joke on the Visual Studio user unfamiliar with the build events usage of robocopy. Until last week I never really had need of robocopy in post build events since xcopy using “$(TargetDir)$(TargetName)*” moves the dll, pdb and the xml documentation file. However, in the quest to get the community more engaged by Continue Reading
Social engineering attacks are nothing new. In fact if you have a scary sounding intro you can suck a lot of unsuspecting people into downloading. This is particularly true when an attacker uses trademark images from well known security products like Norton and software companies like Adobe. Here is what this looks like. At the Continue Reading
Fridays are never uneventful and this one was no exception. A call to the hotline indicates Reveton, aka Trojan:W32/Reveton, Win32/Reveton.A. What seemed interesting was that the user was savvy enough to get through the hijack, find and connect to my web site and subsequently to the remote client. This is a trivial removal at this Continue Reading
I have been getting a number of questions asking me to explain the point of the system I have been calling “Magic Box”. I thought I would take a moment to address this. In my years dealing with technical support matters from the infrequent home user to the enterprise desktop one thing is clear – Continue Reading