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Malware Scanner Provided by Microsoft

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/safety-scanner-download Microsoft Safety Scanner %SYSTEMROOT%\debug\msert.log It has some issues with how it initially describes files as "Infected" but which turn out NOT to be an issue...

Network Diagrams

A good option for network diagrams which you can embed into your github readme https://www.eraser.io https://docs.eraser.io

Google Chrome won’t start

Problem: Attempting to start Google Chrome on Linux raises an error: chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information. [16749:16749:1216/070559.766183:ERROR:filesystem_posix.cc(63)] mkdir : No such file or...

do-release-upgrade 22.04.4 LTS Fail

lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available. To upgrade to the latest...

pfsense – Learnings

If your: RDP session over an Unifi UDM to pfsense IPSec VPN starts with a black screen and then drops out Terminal sessions hang when you try to load a file in VIM Then go into System => Advanced => Firewall & NAT and under VPN Packet Processing reduce the MSS. I...

Working around WSL Installation Error Windows 11

Just tried to install WSL on a fresh install of windows 11 with the recommended command run as administrator wsl --install Kept getting downloading: ubuntu an error occurred during installation. distribution name: 'ubuntu' error code: 0x80072ee7 Tried rebooting What...