Entries by John Couvaras

Latest Security Warnings

 Keep up-to-date with invaluable information : Alerts & Outbreaks  Emsisoft Lab  Emsisoft News  Reviews & Awards  Security Knowledge   Top 5 Security Essentials : The Internet Is A Dangerous Place What’s the point of having a firewall? How to scan and clean a computer with Emsisoft Emergency Kit What is a PUP? Malware and viruses […]

New Ransomware Alert: CryptoLocker copycat PClock discovered

Ransomware CryptoLocker was one of the most infamous malware families of the years 2013 and 2014 and although the operation behind the original CryptoLocker malware family has been dismantled in 2014, it’s still a name that frightens a lot of users and system administrators alike. It is therefore not surprising that other malware authors try […]

Looking Forward to Hyper-V in Server 10

by Eric Siron New year, new products! Some time in 2015, we’re all going to be graced with the newest edition of Windows and Windows Server, and along with them, Hyper-V. I wish I had a slick code name to give you, like “Viridian”, but it seems like most in-progress Microsoft products are now just […]

Hyper-V and PowerShell: VM Process

by Eric Siron In the article that contains the Restart-VM script, I mentioned that a VM that can’t be stopped with Stop-VM requires you to kill its VMWP process. It might not be obvious how to determine which process that is. I’ve written a script to help you do that. This article is part of […]

Chelsio Newsletter, December 2014

Chelsio Newsletter  Happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at Chelsio! The year 2014 closes on a high note with several high profile announcements that underscore the momentum behind Chelsio’s Unified Wire and RDMA over Ethernet solutions. As Chelsio’s 40Gb iSCSI and FCoE adapters established themselves as the highest […]

Archiware iBook “Data Management, Backup & Archive for Media Professionals”

Archiware iBook The free iBook “Data Management, Backup & Archive for Media Professionals” by Archiware’s Dr. Marc Batschkus has recently been updated with some new contributions. The iBook now features contributions from André Aulich (moosystems) on Archive migration, Liam Hayter (Independent State) on Thunderbolt computing and Helmut Tschemernjak (HELIOS) on optimising RAID storage. Read the book

The Hyper-V Portal 2014 Year in Review

by Eric Siron Like any creative work, a blog post is never really done; it’s just abandoned. Unlike many other mediums, blogs do allow us to easily refresh those older articles, but we so rarely ever do it. To close out this year, a few of us on the editorial team got together and selected […]

Repairing Corrupt File Systems on VMs with Repair-Volume

by Luke Orellana The other day I ran into one of the most common issues IT pros have to face, file corruption. Out of the blue, one of our clients called in reporting issues printing from their Windows Server 2008 terminal server. This was a VM, which was being hosted on a Server 2008 R2 […]

Hyper-V and PowerShell: A Deep Dive into Get-VM

by Eric Siron In the introductory article of this series, we talked about objects in PowerShell and how the large and grandiose uses of PowerShell are difficult to explain. While reflecting on that article, I realized that out of all the programming languages that I know, PowerShell’s verb-noun convention is probably the best way there […]