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Did a clean Windows install? Do these 6 things before anything else

Just finished a clean Windows install? Make sure you don’t miss these six critical steps to secure, optimize, and set up your ...
MUO on MSN

If you don't use Hibernate on Windows, delete this massive hidden file now

You can't simply delete hiberfil.sys through File Explorer. Even if you enable hidden files and protected operating system ...
The New York Times

How to Clean Bathroom Tile and Grout

We independently review everything we recommend. We may get paid to link out to retailer sites, and when you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By James Austin and Ellen ...
GitHub

A library for fast parse & import of Windows Prefetch into Elasticsearch.

prefetch2es uses the Python library pyscca, providing high-performance parsing of Windows Prefetch files. It also allows recursive import from the specified directory. $ tree . pffiles/ ├── file1.pf ...
IEEE

Detecting and Classifying Self-Deleting Windows Malware Using Prefetch Files

Abstract: Malware detection and analysis can be a burdensome task for incident responders. As such, research has turned to machine learning to automate malware detection and malware family ...
IEEE

Adversarial Prefetch: New Cross-Core Cache Side Channel Attacks

Abstract: Modern x86 processors have many prefetch instructions that can be used by programmers to boost performance. However, these instructions may also cause security problems. In particular, we ...