Month: July 2018

Workaround 1: Use file recovery software

It’s important to know that the .rapid ransomware creates copies of your files and encrypts them. In the meanwhile, the original files get deleted. There are applications out there that can restore the removed data. You can utilize tools like Data Recovery Pro for this purpose. The newest version of the ransomware under consideration tends to apply secure deletion with several overwrites, but in any case this method is worth a try.

Workaround 2: Make use of backups

First and foremost, this is a great way of recovering your files. It’s only applicable, though, if you have been backing up the information stored on your machine. If so, do not fail to benefit from your forethought.

Workaround 3: Use Shadow Volume Copies

In case you didn’t know, the operating system creates so-called Shadow Volume Copies of every file as long as System Restore is activated on the computer. As restore points are created at specified intervals, snapshots of files as they appear at that moment are generated as well. Be advised this method does not ensure the recovery of the latest versions of your files. It’s certainly worth a shot though. This workflow is doable in two ways: manually and through the use of an automatic solution. Let’s first take a look at the manual process.
Use the Previous Versions feature
The Windows OS provides a built-in option of recovering previous versions of files. It can also be applied to folders. Just right-click on a file or folder, select Properties and hit the tab named Previous Versions. Within the versions area, you will see the list of backed up copies of the file / folder, with the respective time and date indication. Select the latest entry and click Copy if you wish to restore the object to a new location that you can specify. If you click the Restore button, the item will be restored to its original location.
Previous Versions

Apply Shadow Explorer tool
This workflow allows restoring previous versions of files and folders in an automatic mode rather than by hand. To do this, download and install the Shadow Explorer application. After you run it, select the drive name and the date that the file versions were created. Right-click on the folder or file of interest and select the Export option. Then simply specify the location to which the data should be restored.

Situation: The client has SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2008 R2. The SQL seems to have a connection issue with these error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: SQL Network Interface: error Location Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF]
Login timeout expired.
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.

How to stop Windows backup

Situation: the client runs Windows Backup on their Windows 2012 R2 server. It stays on 75% completed and their SQL server has a problem.

Resolution: Stop the windows backup by run this command: wbadmin stop job
This is the result:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Administrator>wbadmin stop job
wbadmin 1.0 – Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Are you sure you want to stop the current operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

The backup operation ended before completing.

C:\Users\Administrator>

You need to enable Desktop Experience. Please follow this post for step by step details:

http://www.chicagotech.net/WordPress/2018/07/30/how-to-enable-de…-windows-2012-r2/

 

Go to Server Manager.
Click Manage in the upper right corner.
Click Add Roles and Features.
Click Next > Next > Next.
At Server Selection select your server.
Click Next > Next.
At Features expand User Interfaces and Infrastructure.
Check Desktop Experience.
If an Add Roles and Features Wizard window pops up with a list of features required for Desktop Experience , just click Add Features.
Click Next > Install.
Restart your server.

To restore deleted items from Microsoft OneDrive website:

1. Login Office 365

2. On the left pane, tap or click Recycle bin.

3. To restore all items, click Settings icon and then Restore.

Situation: When user use Google custom search, he gets this message:
Google Custom Search requires JavaScript
JavaScript is either disabled or not supported by your browser. To use Custom Search, enable JavaScript by changing your browser options and reloading this page

Resolution: To allow all websites within the Internet zone to run scripts within Internet Explorer:
1.On the web browser menu, click Tools or the “Tools” icon (which looks like a gear), and select Internet Options.
2.When the “Internet Options” window opens, select the Security tab.
3.On the “Security” tab, make sure the Internet zone is selected, and then click on the “Custom level…” button.
4.In the Security Settings – Internet Zone dialog box, click Enable for Active Scripting in the Scripting section.
In the Security Settings – Internet Zone dialog box, click Enable for Active Scripting in the Scripting section.
5.When the “Warning!” window opens and asks, “Are you sure you want to change the settings for this zone?” select Yes.
6.Click OK at the bottom of the Internet Options window to close the dialog.
7.Click the Refresh button to refresh the page and run scripts.

Also you may want to allow scripting on a specific website, while leaving scripting disabled in the Internet zone, add the specific Web site to the Trusted sites zone:

After I installed WordPress, people can’t access all my phpBB forums with this message:
Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; acm has a deprecated constructor in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/acm/acm_file.php on line 23

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; user has a deprecated constructor in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/session.php on line 1423

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; bitfield has a deprecated constructor in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/functions_content.php on line 1233

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; dbal has a deprecated constructor in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/db/dbal.php on line 23

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/db/mysql.php:47 Stack trace: #0 /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/common.php(213): dbal_mysql->sql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘chicagot_pbb01’, ‘ropDiBkgko’, ‘chicagot_pbb01’, ”, false, false) #1 /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/index.php(20): include(‘/home4/chicagot…’) #2 {main} thrown in /home4/chicagot/public_html/netforums/includes/db/mysql.php on line 47

I have restored it using hosting backup, but that doesn’t fix the problem. Help please.

I just installed WordPress 4.9.7 and want that public can view it. When I open it, http://www.chicagotech.net/WordPress (it is no http://www.chicagotech.net/WordPress/WP-Admin), it popup for credentials to login. Any blog I published need to login to be viewed.

I assume I need to setup public in Privacy. However, if I go to Settings>Privacy, I don’t see any options for public. Why?

Situation: The client was working on Cisco SG300 switch and it works. After they moved the switch, they can’t access the switch any more. Can’t ping or GUI into. However, they can access it using console port and see the port is up.

Troubleshooting: 1. Is the port up yes – “show int sttaus” shows

gi48 full 100 enabled up.

2. Which VLAN used gi48? show vlan shows VLAN 10

vlan 1  untagged port gi1-47

vlan 10 untagged port 48

3. The client only uses VLAN 1 (192.168.16.0/24) now. “show ip int” shows VAL 1 operation is down.

192.168.15.2/24 vlan 10 up/up

192.168.16.2/24 vlan 1 up/down

Resolution: Change port from VLAN 10 to VLAN 1 fixing the problem:

config

int gi48

switchport access vlan 1