Reader Scott points us toward the lesser-known but very handy Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool. It's a scripting interface that "simplifies the use of Windows Management ...

If you enable this policy in a GPO that applies to the user’s computer, helpdesk will be able to enter admin credentials to open an admin-level command prompt on the user’s computer and run WMIC ...

Microsoft says that starting with the next version of Windows 11, likely the 24H2 version released later this year, the tool will be disabled by default in subsequent versions. Eventually, Microsoft ...

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...

Last time I showed you how to get WMI information about hard drive utilization without writing a single line of VBScript. If you don’t have PowerShell but are running XP or 2003 (no, I haven’t tried ...

As Windows Defender matures and becomes tightly integrated into Windows 10, malware writers are creating techniques to evade its detection. Such is the case with the GootKit banking Trojan, which use ...

We recently observed malware authors using a combination of a tool found on all Windows computers and a usually innocuous file type associated with modifying and rendering XML documents. While these ...