Creating Secure Passwords using WinTinker Password Generator

WinTinker is an application that can be use to create strong and secure passwords. It’s features (the program) make sure that the passwords that you are using everyday for online transaction like banking, marketing, e-mails and social networking are strong and secure.

Background Information

Passwords are set of characters, word or phrase that help us to create a secure transaction. Because of the concept, unauthorized users can’t access your personal information and documents.

Main Features

WinTinker as Easy Password Generator (1st Tab)

The program creates an easy-to-remember equivalent passwords. The output is a combination of Upper Case, Lower Case, Numbers and Symbol.

Lower Case
facebook
f@c3800k

Upper Case
mypassword
MYP@$$W0RD

Alternating Case
yesterday
Y3$73rD@y

 

WinTinker as Random Password Generator (2nd Tab)

For this feature, the program creates unreadable Randomly generated password that you can write down. Just make sure you don't put and label it as your “super secret word” password.

Note: Keep it in a safe place.

Samples

All types of characters including numbers and symbols 

2r,(&sNJA!#c,U>

Numbers only

160781216863304

Alphabet

QtPQscVFOdthWRg

 

WinTinker as Encrypted Password Generator (3rd Tab)

The program will create strong passwords from easy to remember words by encrypting your usual password to the website information. Because of that, you don’t need to memorize the secure password. By using the tool, you just need your usual password that you are using everyday and indicate the Website address that you will use.

Overall the program just make sure that all your passwords that you are using everyday is secure enough that you don’t have to worry again and again.

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Get the installer from Adobe Reader Setup Files

Adobe Acrobat Reader is an application software created by Adobe Systems for  PDF (Portable Document Format) files to view,  manipulate, print and manage files.

It is widely used as a method of information presentation similar to Microsoft Word.

Here’s how to get the original installer located at Program Files:

Go to the path below and find the setup files

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Setup Files

This is really cool if you just need to copy the installer and you can’t use the internet for file download. Great for flash drive applications!

Adobe Reader software due to its popularity, is now the global standard for electronic information and document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can interact with all PDF documents and being updated frequently.

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Using Process Monitor to find Registry Settings Values and Names

If you want to monitor Windows registry, file-system and processes real-time – Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring utility that runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7 systems.

Using Process Monitor for Windows Registry

Make sure that use Include ‘RegSetValue’ to add the filter option in order to monitor the registry settings easily.

Or just incase you can’t find the RegSetValue in runtime, click the Filter icon and choose Operation at the list of entries and type “RegSetValue” then “include”.

Process Monitor logs all Registry operations and displays Registry paths using conventional abbreviations for Registry root keys e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarGlomLevel.

To access and verify them to the registry you just need to use the “Jump to” function

Other important functions from Microsoft:

Process
In its thread monitoring Process Monitor tracks and gets all process and thread operations such as creation and exit as well as device driver load operations and dlls.

Network
Process Monitor uses Event Tracing to find and record TCP and UDP activity. Each network operation includes the source and destination ip addresses including the amount of data sent and received.

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WordWeb: Quickly search definitions and find meaning of words

Looking for the right English words?

Wordweb is an English thesaurus and full dictionary software available for looking up words easily.

To download the software

http://wordweb.info/cgi-bin/geoip/wordweb.exe

Running Wordweb from Command Line

Rundll32 WWEB32.DLL,ShowRunDLL word_to_lookup

This will show the word “word_to_lookup” after running the command.

 

Cool right?!

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Finding scan.exe at McAfee Superdat for VirusScan Command Line

VirusScan Command Line utility is a program that provides a way to quickly perform virus-checking using the command prompt. It is an alternative to scanners that uses windows graphical user interface (GUI). It is effective and provides quick solution against viruses, trojan-horse programs, and other types of potentially unwanted software.

If your one of the geeks or IT experts that recently noticed it’s command-line scanner utility (scan.exe) is gone or missing at it’s SuperDat file. Then here your are: Where can you find and download McAfee VirusScan command-line tool?

http://www.mcafeeasap.com/downloads/CLS/vscl-w32-6.0.1-l.zip

to update the tool with the latest virus definition, look for the filename that is of the format avvdat-nnnn.zip, where nnnn is the DAT
version number.

ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/commonupdater/

Create a folder and just overwrite the files.

The current release version includes the latest technology in anti-malware providing improved detection rates, smaller file downloads, Multi-threaded scanning support and XML support for easier processing of scan results.

It provides the optimum protection for your computer and network using advanced heuristic analysis which detects previously unknown macro viruses and program viruses.

McAfee Information about the command line-utility 

Scanning NTFS streams
Some known techniques of virus file infection is adding at the beginning or the end of a file. Streams might contain viruses and exploit the NTFS multiple data streams feature in Windows operating systems.

VirusScan command-line utility can analyze and detect a stream virus by specifying the full stream name, or including /STREAMS and specify using wildcard characters ? and *.

Heuristic Analysis

The scanner uses two techniques to detect viruses — signature matching and heuristic analysis. A virus signature is simply a binary pattern that is found in a virus-infected file. Using information in the DAT files, the scanner searches for those patterns. However, this approach cannot detect a new virus because its signature is not yet known, therefore the scanner uses another technique — heuristic analysis.

/ANALYZE         : Turn on heuristic analysis for programs and macros.

/PANALYZE        : Turn on program heuristics.

/MANALYZE       : Turn on macro heuristics.

To clean your computer using McAfee Command-line

Shut down your computer and boot it into Safe Mode.

Scan your disks after the boot. At the command prompt, type:
SCAN /ADL /ALL /CLEAN /WINMEM /PROGRAM

Other commands that you can use:

To scan all folders and subdirectories

SCAN /CLEAN /ALL /RECURSIVE e:

To scan drive C including streams with advance heuristic analysis

SCAN /CLEAN /ALL /SUB /ANALYZE /STREAMS /WINMEM c:

What can you scan?
File types scanned by default.
The following file types and many other common file types that are susceptible to infection are scanned by default: .BIN, .COM, .DLL, .DOC, .DOT, .EXE, .HTM, .INI,
.OVL, .RTF, .SYS, .VBS, .VXD, .XLA, .XLS, and .XLT.

Archived and compressed files recognized by the scanner.
You can scan compressed and archive file formats which include .ARC, .ARJ, .CAB, Diet, .GZIP, LZEXE, .LZH, PKLite, .RAR, .TAR, and .ZIP files.

The scanner detects and reports any infections found in any compressed or archive file. The scanner can also clean files in .ZIP archive format. If you have access to Windows, you can clean certain infections from compressed files using VirusScan
for Windows software.

VirusScan Command Line Utility Usage and Options

scan /? Usage: scan [object1] [object2...] [option1] [option2...]    /?               : Display this help screen.    /AD             : Scan all drives (not removable media).    /ADL            : Scan all local drives (not removable media).    /ADN            : Scan all network drives.    /AFC=<cache size>         : Set the Size(in MB) of the Internal Cache Used When Decompressing Archive Files.    /ALL             : Scan all files regardless of filename extension.    /ALLOLE        : Treat all files as compound/OLE regardless of extension.    /ANALYZE      : Turn on heuristic analysis for programs and macros.    /APPEND        : Append to report file rather than overwriting.    /APPENDBAD   : Append to bad file rather than overwriting.    /BADLIST=<filename> : Filename and path for bad list log file.    /BOOT                     : Scan boot sector and master boot record Only.    /CHECKLIST=<filename> : Scan list of files contained in <filename>.    /CLEAN          : Attempt to clean infected files.    /CONTACTFILE=<filename>   : Display contents of <filename> when a virus is found.    /DAM             : Remove all macros from infected MS Office files.    /DEL              : Delete infected files except archive files.    /DOHSM         : Scan migrated files(hierarchical storage management).    /DRIVER=<dir> : Directory specifying location of DAT files.    /EXCLUDE=<filename>       : Do not scan files/directories listed in <filename>.    /EXTENSIONS  : Scan defaults & user extension list.    /EXTLIST        : List file-extensions scanned by default.    /EXTRA=<filename> : Specify the full path and file name of any extra. dat file.    /FAM         : Find all macros - not just infected macros. Used with /DAM will remove all macros.    /FDC         : Force digital signature check.    /FREQUENCY=<hours>        : Do not scan <hours> after the previous scan.    /HELP        : Displays this help    /HTML=<filename> : Create and specify a HTML report file.    /LOAD=<filename> : Load options from <filename>.    /LOUD           : Include all scanned files in the /REPORT file.    /MAILBOX      : Scan inside plain text mailboxes.    /MANALYZE    : Turn on macro heuristics.    /MANY          : Scan many floppy diskettes.    /MAXFILESIZE=<size>       : Examine Only those files smaller than the specified size(in KB).    /MEMSIZE=<size> : File size(in KB) to load into memory for scanning limited by a maximum file size defaulting to 1MB.    /MIME     : Scan inside MIME, UUE, XXE and BinHex files.    /MOVE=<dir>               : Move infected file into directory <dir>, preserving path.    /NOBKSEM  : Prevent scanning of files that are normally prote cted.    /NOBOOT       : Do not scan boot sectors.    /NOBREAK      : Disable Ctrl-C / Ctrl-Break during scanning.    /NOCOMP : Do not scan self extracting executables by default.    /NOD       : Don't switch into /ALL mode when repairing.    /NODDA    : Do not scan boot sectors.    /NODECRYPT : Don't scan password-protected MS Office documents.    /NODOC        : Do not scan MS Office files.    /NOEXPIRE     : Disable data files expiration date notice.    /NOJOKES      : Do not alert on joke files.    /NOMEM        : Do not scan memory for viruses.    /NORECALL    : Do not move files from remote storage into local storage after scanning.    /NORENAME   : Do not rename infected files that cannot be cleaned.    /NOSCRIPT    : Do not scan files that contain HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, or Script Component Type Libraries.    /PANALYZE    : Turn on program heuristics.    /PAUSE         : Pause at end of each screen page.    /PLAD           : Preserve the last-accessed time and date for files that are scanned.    /PROGRAM     : Scan for potentially unwanted applications.    /RECURSIVE   : Examine any subdirectories in addition to the specified target directory.    /REPORT=<filename> : Report names of viruses found into <filename>.    /RPTALL        : Include all scanned files in the /REPORT file.    /RPTCOR       : Include corrupted files in /REPORT file.    /RPTERR        : Include errors in /REPORT file.    /RPTOBJECTS : Reports number of objects at all levels scanned in summary.    /SECURE        : Equivalent to Analyse, doall, unzip.    /SHOWCOMP   : Report any files that are packaged.    /SILENT         : Disable all screen output.    /STREAMS      : Scan inside NTFS streams (NT & DATAPOL Only).    /SUB   : Examine any subdirectories in addition to the specified target directory.    /THREADS=<nn>          : Set scan thread count.    /TIMEOUT=<seconds>  : Set the maximum time to spend scanning any one file.    /UNZIP    : Scan inside archive files, such as those saved in ZIP, LHA, PKarc, ARJ, TAR, CHM, and RAR.    /VERSION  : Display the scanner's version number.    /VIRLIST   : Display virus list.    /WINMEM[=<pid>]  : If pid given scans the Windows Process with Process ID <pid> otherwise scans all Windows Processes.    /XMLPATH=<filename> : Filename and path for XML log file.    * Mandatory

Source(s):

Mcafee vcl6wpg.pdf file

https://community.mcafee.com/thread/40173

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