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"Windows license locked": Ransomware Targets Windows

April 12, 2011 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

“Windows license locked!” “This copy of Windows is locked. You may be a victim of fraud or there may be an internal system error” – malware message Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure has warned of a new variant of what he calls “Ransomware” or ransom trojans. These are attacks by malware that takes a computer hostage [...]

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Windows 7 SP1 Nightmare

February 25, 2011 Daniel Ihonvbere 1 Comment

So Microsoft recently released Service Pack 1 for Window 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Knowing that I will soon be getting calls to update computers, I decided to give SP1 a spin. I have attempted to install SP1 on three computers so far without much luck. First, using automatic update did not work. The [...]

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How to Reset A Windows Server 2008 Domain Password

February 19, 2011 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

I recently got a desperate call from a friend I helped to set up a domain running Windows server 2008. Apparently, something happened and nobody could log on to the server. My first thought was password expiration so I told them to just log on as domain admin and reset the passwords of the affected [...]

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How To Recover From A Hard Drive Crash

January 4, 2011 Daniel Ihonvbere No Comments

So, what if you came into the office one morning and heard some clicking sound coming from your server? That clicking sound could be a near heart-stopper for some or another minor irritation to others depending on how well they have planned for such a situation. It is the tell-tale sign that a hard drive [...]

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How To Fix Error 80072EFD On Small Business Server 2008

July 19, 2010 Daniel Ihonvbere 14 Comments

For several months, I had a client with a Small Business Server 2008 that just would not update. It worked for a while and just suddenly quit after a round of updates through automatic update. No matter what I tried from confirming network connectivity, checking firewall settings, adding and re-adding the update sites to firewall [...]

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