Windows 10 disables the Windows Defender antispyware agent
Edit the registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender] “DisableAntiSpyware”=dword:00000001
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IIS ARR – configuration to use self-signed certificates on target server
In this new tutorial dedicated to IIS ARR, I will explain how to configure ARR in order to be able to use a self-signed certificate on the target server. In the previous tutorial, I explained how to do an SSL dump, in this configuration the target server is in HTTP, which means that the request …
IIS – Add the X-Forwarded-For field in the logs
In this tutorial, I will explain how to add the X-Forwarded-For field in the IIS logs, in order to retrieve the real IP address of a visitor when a reverse proxy is upstream of the IIS server. On the IIS Web server, open the Internet Services Management console. Select server 1 and click Logging 2. …
PowerShell: sign scripts
In this tutorial, I will explain how to sign your scripts. Before going into the subject, we will see why signing the scripts, the main reason is security. If your environment (computers + servers) is configured to run only signed scripts and a PowerShell script is launched in a malicious file, it will be neutralized …
PowerShell: download a file in HTTP, HTTPS
In this tutorial, I will explain how to download a file using PowerShell that is on a server accessible in HTTP or HTTPS. This can be particularly useful when administering a server without an interface, where the only browser installed is Internet Explorer or in a script. There are several solutions to download one using …
Powershell: create a text file and write in it
In this “small” tutorial, I will explain how to create a text file in Powershell and then how to write content in it. In this tutorial, we will see 4 Powershell Cmdlets: We will start by creating the file. Here the file is created in the current folder, it is possible to put an absolute …
Install nano on Windows
In this tutorial, I will explain how to easily install nano on Windows (Desktop and Server). If you regularly use Linux, you are certainly familiar with it, for those who do not know nano, it is a command line text editor and it must be said that sometimes it is missing on Windows, particularly when …
Windows DNS Server: Error 404, 407, 408 with virtual machine on Hyper-V
In this tutorial, which is a special case, I will explain how to solve the 404, 407 and 408 error that can occur on a DNS server with Windows Server under the following conditions: If you are in this particular configuration, it is possible that on your DNS server, you encounter the error 404, 407 …
PowerShell: show the contents of a text file
In this tutorial, I will show you how to display the contents of a text file (txt, yaml, php, vbs…) in a PowerShell window. In fact, it’s very simple, just use the Cmdlet Get-Content and specify the file name. Which give : If you are familiar with the cat command in Linux, you can also …
Windows Server: disable a cipher suite
In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to disable a cipher suite also call cipher. If you arrive on this tutorial by a search engine, there is a good chance that it is due to a vulnerability test and that you have an alert that goes up because vulnerable cryptographic suites (cipher) are …