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Let’s Go! Episode 31 – The Bokan Files

Let’s Go! Episode 31 – The Bokan Files The only media source you can rely on in these uncertain times dear listeners! Tune in and discover such shocking secrets as the truth about the moon landing! The hidden knowledge of alien life somewhere out in the universe, fighting to the death with aliens from OTHER universes! And dont be alarmed when you find out about the lost royal family members living among you right now! TRUST NO ONE (except us) Listen up! download  file  now

Windows Link Files Using While Loops

Windows Link Files Using While Loops A colleague asked today about a tool to decode Microsoft Windows link files.  Before I begin to discuss the tool I recommended, Ill briefly describe Windows link files.  A Windows link file, commonly known as "shortcuts", has the .lnk extension.  It is basically a file with information about another file.  It is interpreted by the windows shell, and the shell opens the file pointed to by the link file if all goes well.  Link files can be user or system generated.  You can learn much more about Windows link files in the white paper by Harry Parsonage. My favorite tool for parsing Windows link files was created by Jake Cunningham who posts tools he creates at the "JAFAT: Archive of Forensic Analysis Tools" website.  Jake has created some very well know Safari browser tools, but the tool that has caught my eye is "lnk-parse-1.0.pl".  The lnk-parse tool is a perl script that provides the most de...

Windows 7 Install Unable to copy files using windows 7 usb dvd download tool

Windows 7 Install Unable to copy files using windows 7 usb dvd download tool Sometimes if your USB stick has something in its MBR you might get the error Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool error: We were unable to copy your files. Please check your USB device and the selected ISO file and try again. You have to start   command   prompt as an Administrator (On   Windows 7   that means right clicking the cmd and selecting Run as Administrator) and use the diskpart utility. WARNING: Be careful to select the right drive or else your day won�t have a happy end because if you select the wrong drive you will lose all your data on this drive! Instead of formatting the partition with FAT32, you can also use NTFS (like WUDT does), but then you need an extra step to make the drive bootable: Bootsect.exe /nt60 X: �X:� is the drive letter of your USB stick. Bootsect.exe can be found on the Windows 7 DVD in the boot folder. However, I can�t really recommend using...