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Virus like ‘Windows defender’ in Germany

Recently I met a new kind of screen locker while browsing. I could see it with Chrome and Edge in Windows 11. It opens a window which looks like a Windows defender and tells you to call to a number of the support. Of course, you will just pay too much for this call and […] Read more»

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Add the application as a service at Windows Server

You can add the service with PowerShell. New-Service and Get-service are available in PowerShell 5, for ‘Remove-Service’ PowerShell >= 6 required. Otherwise you can use ‘sc.exe DELETE MyMegaServiceApplication’. You should execute it with as an administrator. Not any application you can start a service. As a .Net developer, I usually create .Net solutions, in this […] Read more»

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Set Windows Defender exclusions with PowerShell

To exclude folders, files or file extensions in scanning by Windows Defender, you can use PowerShell. It’s recommended to use by administrators. With this PowerShell script (command) you can easily set exclusion for the Windows Defender. It is useful sometime and help to improve the performance. Read more»

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Truncate log files with PowerShell

It is a very common task to truncate log files. You don’t notice them and they reach the limit size always not in the appropriate time. And when this moment occurs, it’s much better to have a quick solution to decrease the size of log files. But even much better to clean logs automatically on […] Read more»

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