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Winternals
Windows Sysinternals is a website that offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment. Originally, the Sysinternals website (formerly known as ntinternals) was created in 1996 and was operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which was located in Austin, Texas. It was started by software developers Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. Microsoft acquired Winternals and its assets on July 18, 2006. The website featured several freeware tools to administer and monitor computers running Microsoft Windows. The software can now be found at Microsoft. The company also sold data recovery utilities and professional editions of their freeware tools. Winternals Software LP Winternals Software LP was founded by Cogswell and Russinovich, who sparked the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal in an October 2005 posting to the Sysinternals blog. On July 18, 2006, Microsoft Corporation acquired the company and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTFSDOS
NTFSDOS were three kinds of programs by Winternals (later bought by Microsoft) for DOS that could handle NTFS formatted drives. Programs Basic The first program was NTFSDOS - a freeware utility for DOS (''NTFSDOS.EXE'') that allows read-only access to NTFS formatted drives from a DOS environment. Tools The second program was NTFSDOS Tools - an add-on package for NTFSDOS that contains two commercial utilities for DOS - NTFSCopy and NTFSRen. The former (''NTFSCOPY.EXE'') could be used to overwrite corrupt files with fresh versions. The latter (''NTFSREN.EXE'') could be used to change the names of bad drivers so Windows could not load them. Professional The final program was NTFSDOS Professional - a whole commercial solution for handling read and write operations in NTFS from a DOS environment. It must be installed as a package for Microsoft Windows first. The downloaded version comes in demoware Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Russinovich
Mark Eugene Russinovich (born December 22, 1966) is a Spanish-born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006. Early life and education Russinovich was born in Salamanca, Spain and was raised in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, until he was 15, when he moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a radiologist and his mother was a business administrator of his father's radiology practice in Pittsburgh. Russinovich is of Croatian descent. He was introduced to computers when his friend's father got an Apple II in the 1970s. He reverse engineering#Software, reverse-engineered its read-only memory, ROM program and wrote programs for it. At age 15, he bought himself his first computer, a TI-99/4A. About six months later, his parents bought him an Apple II Plus, Apple II+ from his local high school when it upgraded the computer labs to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geek Squad
Geek Squad, Inc. is a subsidiary of American and Canadian multinational consumer electronics corporation Best Buy, headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. The subsidiary was originally an independent company founded by "Chief Inspector" Robert Stephens on June 16, 1994, offering various computer-related services and accessories for residential and commercial clients. In 2002, they merged with Best Buy, retaining Stephens as the primary corporate leadership for the subsidiary. The Geek Squad provides services in-store, on-site, and over the Internet via remote access, and also provides 24-hour telephone and emergency on-site support. Geek Squad no longer works solely on computer-related devices. It now diagnoses issues in and repairs all consumer electronics, as well as appliances. Locations and partnerships Geek Squad service centers are located in most Best Buy stores in the United States, including Puerto Rico, and Canada, providing technical support through in-store consultat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emergency Repair Disk Commander
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of utilities for Microsoft Windows customers who have subscribed to Microsoft Software Assurance program. It aims at bringing easier manageability and monitoring of enterprise desktops, emergency recovery, desktop virtualization and application virtualization. Components The MDOP suite is grouped into 3 overall technologies: Virtualize, Manage and Restore Virtualize Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) :An application virtualization and application streaming platform that allows clients to run applications locally via on demand streaming from a centralized server. This makes sure that all clients run the application with the same configuration. App-V also allows standalone virtualized applications to run locally on the client. Starting with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, this item became part of Windows 10 and is no longer included in MDOP. Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) :A replacement for ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rootkit
A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software. The term ''rootkit'' is a compound of "root" (the traditional name of the privileged account on Unix-like operating systems) and the word "kit" (which refers to the software components that implement the tool). The term "rootkit" has negative connotations through its association with malware. Rootkit installation can be automated, or an attacker can install it after having obtained root or administrator access. Obtaining this access is a result of direct attack on a system, i.e. exploiting a vulnerability (such as privilege escalation) or a password (obtained by cracking or social engineering tactics like " phishing"). Once installed, it becomes possible to hide the intrusion as well as to maintain privilege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contig (defragmentation Utility)
Contig is a command line defragmentation utility for Windows developed by Microsoft as part of the Sysinternals Suite. Operation Contig is designed to defragment individual files, or specified groups of files, and does not attempt to move files to the beginning of the partition. Unlike the Windows built-in defragmenter tool, Contig can defragment individual files, individual directories, and subsets of the file system using wildcards. Contig does not move any data except that belonging to the file in the question, so the amount it can defragment a file is limited to the largest contiguous block of free space on a system. Use of contig exchanges decreased file fragmentation for increased free space fragmentation. Combined usage of the -s parameter and the wildcard symbol * allows whole directories and drives to be defragmented: for example, contig -s C:\* will defrag all the files on hard drive C. The -s parameters means to browse directories recursively. Directories, for e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RootkitRevealer
RootkitRevealer is a proprietary freeware tool for rootkit detection on Microsoft Windows by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. It runs on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit-versions only). Its output lists Windows Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a rootkit. It is the same tool that triggered the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal. RootkitRevealer is no longer being developed. See also *Sysinternals * Process Explorer *Process Monitor Process Monitor is a tool from Windows Sysinternals, part of the Microsoft TechNet website. The tool monitors and displays in real-time all file system activity on a Microsoft Windows or Unix-like operating system. It combines two older tools, '' ... * ProcDump References Microsoft software Computer security software Windows security software Windows-only freeware Rootkit detection software 2006 software {{Windows-software-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Process Explorer
Process Explorer is a freeware task manager and system monitor for Microsoft Windows created by SysInternals, which has been acquired by Microsoft and re-branded as Windows Sysinternals. It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with a rich set of features for collecting information about processes running on the user's system. It can be used as the first step in debugging software or system problems. Process Explorer can be used to track down problems. For example, it provides a means to list or search for named resources that are held by a process or all processes. This can be used to track down what is holding a file open and preventing its use by another program. As another example, it can show the command lines used to start a program, allowing otherwise identical processes to be distinguished. Like Task Manager, it can show a process that is maxing out the CPU, but unlike Task Manager it can show which thread (with the callstack) is using the CPU – inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProcDump
ProcDump is a command-line application used for monitoring an application for CPU spikes and creating crash dumps during a spike. The crash dumps can then be used by an administrator or software developer to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump supports monitoring of hung windows and unhandled exceptions. It can also create dumps based on the values of system performance counters. Overview Initially, ProcDump was only available for Microsoft Windows. In November 2018, Microsoft confirmed it is porting Sysinternals tools, including ProcDump and ProcMon, to Linux. The software is open source. It is licensed under MIT License and the source code is available on GitHub. The Linux version requires Linux kernels version 3.5+ and runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 7, Fedora 26, Mageia 6, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It currently does not have full feature parity with the Windows version (e.g. custom performance counters). Example Create five core dumps ten seconds apart of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Process Monitor
Process Monitor is a tool from Windows Sysinternals, part of the Microsoft TechNet website. The tool monitors and displays in real-time all file system activity on a Microsoft Windows or Unix-like operating system. It combines two older tools, ''FileMon'' and ''RegMon'' and is used in system administration, computer forensics, and application debugging. Overview Process Monitor monitors and records all actions attempted against the Microsoft Windows Windows Registry, Registry. Process Monitor can be used to detect failed attempts to read and write registry keys. It also allows for filtering on specific keys, processes, process IDs, and values. In addition it shows how applications use files and Dynamic-link library, DLLs, detects some critical errors in system files and more. History RegMon and its sister application Filemon were primarily created by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, employed by NuMega Technologies and later SysInternals prior SysInternals being bought out by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony BMG Copy Protection Rootkit Scandal
In 2005, it was revealed that the implementation of copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs distributed by Sony BMG installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and " phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits. Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Companies Based In Austin, Texas
This is a list of notable companies based in the Austin metropolitan area. Fortune 500 (rankings as of 2021) *Dell Technologies (28) *Oracle (80) * Tesla Inc. (100) Advertising * Door Number 3 * GSD&M * LatinWorks * LIN Media (Media General)-Shutdown * McGarrah Jessee * R/GA * RetailMeNot * Rock Candy Media * T3 (The Think Tank) Aerospace and air travel * Astrotech Corporation * Austin Express- Shutdown * Emerald Air-Closed Architecture * Dick Clark Architecture * Lundgren and Maurer-Closed in the 80s no successor * Reclaimed Space Automotive * Tesla Beauty * Beardbrand * Birds Barbershop Biotechnology * Asuragen-Relocation to Minneapolis, Minnesota * Luminex Corporation * Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to Australia Booksellers and publishing * BookPeople * Clockwork Storybook (Discontinued) * Greenleaf Book Group * Holt McDougal * Landes Bioscience * Monofonus Press * Steve Jackson Games Construction * The Boring Company * ICON Data * Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
