When looking at logs (web, email, ssh) at you don’t recognize an IP address, what are some easy ways to find out if it’s a “friendly” IP address (someone using Comcast wifi from different locations) versus a hacker from another country.
http://whois.arin.net/ui/ – Look up who owns the bigger netblock
https://search.arin.net/rdap/ – More useful for finding out where in the world that subnet might be
I’ve found that the easiest way to create a password protected zip file, is to use the freely available 7-zip.
C:\7z.exe a test.zip fileyouwantzipped -pPUT_PASS_PHRASE_HERE
7-Zip 18.05 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2018-04-30
Scanning the drive:
1 file, 13626 bytes (14 KiB)
Creating archive: test.zip
Add new data to archive: 1 file, 13626 bytes (14 KiB)
Files read from disk: 1
Archive size: 11376 bytes (12 KiB)
Everything is Ok
C:\A pretty easy way to generate passwords/pass phrases is to visit: https://untroubled.org/pwgen/ppgen.cgi and change options as you see fit.
You know the feeling when you are trying to reinstall software on a computer…you’ve done it many times…but all of a sudden you can’t find the original DVD with the software key printed on it?
Yup. M e too.
Belarc Advisor (http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html) to the rescue. It will tell you the licenses of software already installed on the computer.
It also tells you a whole lot about your computer’s system: disk space, memory, etc.
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: COMPUTER
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 298 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 7509 MB 6619 MB
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
DISKPART> exit
This info was copied from: http://geekswithblogs.net/ilich/archive/2013/04/26/recovering-unallocated-space-of-a-usb-flash-drive.aspx
I’m really used to being able to change timestamps from inside the unix shell. Occasionally I need to do this in Windows, and it’s not that simple to do. However, this tool brings right-clicking on a filename to change timestamps to your computer:
TouchPro allows you to change any combination of file time attributes through a file’s property pages. It fully integrates into Windows Explorer giving you the ability to affect the timestamps of:
The registered version of TouchPro enables extra facilities: