Information Technology
Last month I published an article on MS Defender and Nagios, on a similar topic this week I used the MS Defender Powershell module and wrote a helper function to scan a file using mpcmd.exe. Continue reading “How to run on-demand AV scanning on a file with MS Defender using Powershell”
In this article, I will use a PowerShell one-liner script to generate a test file to test if the Anti-Virus runtime solution installed is working as expected.
Continue reading “How to use Powershell to create a virus for testing your AV”
Recently I’ve encountered a strange issue that affected one Windows workstation with Sophos AV (Endpoint) software installed. Sometimes this software creates some temporary files with ‘$$$’ extension and apparently it never removes them.
I thought that the process of analysis and implementing a solution for this edge case was perfect for an article and it is applicable to many similar situations when scripting is required to collect information or mitigate.
Continue reading “Using PowerShell to Clean Up Sophos Temp Files”