Recent content by neemobeer

I mean if you can dream it up someone can probably make it. Is there really a big interest, unlikely. Why not just an internet search or GenAI tool and ask I want free/open source solution for X?

Groupon is a fairly reputable site. VARs are usually going to sell full priced licenses only

If there not trying to customize it and just using for testing, not activating is an option. Lots of 3rd parties sell licenses for cheap as they recycle old systems and pull the old licenses when they are retail. Groupon for example sells licenses for in the ~$10 range. There's always a small...

High level UEFI loads from a ROM chip Drivers load to read disks Drives are scanned for a EFI boot loader Boot loader is selected and takes over boot process Possibly messed up ESP partition or corrupted EFI file.

UEFI doesn't utilize a boot sector. There is a legacy MBR record but it's not used by UEFI.

This kind of defeats the purpose of containers. The point is to run the minimum components to run an application. Also fairly certain only dotNET core based apps really work in a container.

Info on scareware https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/malware/scareware/

Can you post a screenshot? Was this in a browser? Without seeing the popup I would suspect what you're seeing is scareware. Often it's in the form of an ad or part of a webstie, but it can also be an installed form of malware. The goal is to get you to pay money for a non-existent problem.

Agreed it's a bit of a rabbit hole. but it wouldn't piggie back off the mouse. Since you can daisy chain 127 devices off 1 usb port the malicious device would show up as another device and can act independent of the actual mouse

I'd say the risk is so low for the mundane user that's it's not worth worrying about. Someone would have to have physical access to your device (mouse) This isn't a mouse but a normal looking USB cable. https://www.pcmag.com/news/evil-usb-cable-can-remotely-accept-commands-from-hacker

1. You can click the gear icon in task manager and change the 'real time update speed' to low or paused 2. You can go into Control Panel > credential manager, the credentials will be saved there, find the cred click remove

Get-FileHash should work just fine. I would recommend using SHA256, while slower it has a nearly 0% chance of having a collision (meaning where two non-duplicate files end up having the same hash).

Did you check Settings Accounts 'Email and Accounts' This is where you specifically tie MS services to MS accounts

MS account users are stored in the SAM just like local users. You can remove the account without a reinstall. Settings Accounts 'Other Users' Click the arrow next to the account name On the line that says 'Account and Data' click remove

If the VM is on the same host with the disk you want to share, you can just use enhanced session mode and share the disk. Share devices with Windows virtual machines