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Or your Hard drive is just dying.
I'd do backups (and test them) just in case
I'd rather be phishing!
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You are joking, right? CHKDSK[^] is part of the OS and tries to repair damage in the file system. I have not yet heard of any malware posing as CHKDSK to do something evil.
And then, of course, there still is Windows 10 that poses as an operating system.
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CodeWraith wrote: I have not yet heard of any malware posing as CHKDSK to do something evil.
that's exactly what this latest malware does.
look at the article the OP linked to. there's a screenshot.
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No. They said that someone reported that their network is down and a screenshot of chkdsk at work. This could just as well been the result of switching the computer on and off without shutting down properly. Nobody really claimed this to be the malware in disguise. To a normal user or journalist this must be all the same anyway.
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Thanks. This is ugly, but actually a good disguise for what they want to do.
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... or the system was powered off while running (reset key, power outage).
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Article soon on acquiring an SSL cert using acme.net (forked) to negotiate (along with a micro-HTTP server) an ACME handshake with LetsEncrypt and registering the cert directly with netsh for a single HTTPS domain instance or registering the cert in IIS with SNI to serve multiple HTTPS domains from a single public IP each with their own server instance.
On Windows 10. 
Interestingly, you can have a single netsh binding running with multiple IIS SNI bindings. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Marc Clifton wrote: LetsEncrypt
Why so complicated? Just open the right mail attachment and you get your entire disk encrypted before you know it.
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CodeWraith wrote: Just open the right mail attachment and you get your entire disk encrypted before you know it.
Well, I was wanting something with a bit finer control. 
Marc
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That usually is the problem with all offers that you can't refuse. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Well, I was wanting something with a bit finer control
But, it's windows 10: users should must not have control, ever!
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Even more interesting, LetsEncrypt has issued certs to over 10,000 PayPal phishing sites and security experts say it is ruining HTTPS as it removes the trustworthiness of https leaving people more vulnerable to attacks.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: LetsEncrypt has issued certs to over 10,000 PayPal phishing sites and security experts say it is ruining HTTPS as it removes the trustworthiness of https leaving people more vulnerable to attacks.
I looked that up and found this. Quite an interesting read. I'll mention this in the forthcoming article.
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kmoorevs wrote: Perfect timing!
Article here. Not sure though that it'll help you with your webhost. Did they finally resolve the support ticket?
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Thanks Marc! My webhost did resolve the ticket. The problem was that they moved my domain to a different server without also installing my certificate...a slight oversight on their part.
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"She fired from about a foot away with a .50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun"
WTF! A HOUSE wouldnt stop that!
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Neither would an engine block or the armor on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
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- Benjamin Disraeli
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I doubt she can even fire the damn thing without breaking her arm.
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Well the mass of a DE is enough that a proper grip on the weapon will make doubling the shot very difficult but not breaking anyone arms. We're talking about a 2.5 kg weapon with part of the gasses diverted to cycle it and a recoil spring and a low axis bore.
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She definitely won't break her arms, but if she's not using both hands and a proper grip, she may have caught the thing in the forehead during recoil.
I played with a Desert Eagle 50 and a Smith & Wesson 50 last year. The DE was vicious to shoot while the S&W was quite pleasant, even though the max chamber pressure of the 50S&W is 60,000psi, nearly twice that of a 50AE. (A 50BMG proof round is 65,000psi)
A 3 inch thick hard cover book, properly held tightly closed, could stop a Desert Eagle in 50AE. If he used a different type of book from his test shot, or held it loosely or in a way that allowed air between the pages, ... well, good bye.
On the other hand, the S&W 50 would just break the same book in half and keep going, no matter how tightly you held it closed. The book might stop the bullet but won't stand up to the torque applied by it.
(The idea of holding the book tightly closed is to prevent the pages from moving upon impact. Basically, making the book appear to the bullet as though it was still a tree.)
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Odd that the S&W is more powerful yet easier to fire.
Anyway, its a massive gun for a girl to use, they really dont have the mass and strength to use big weapons.
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As Darwin said, using the gray matter between the ears only as a spacer to keep them apart is a serious disadvantage.
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Perfect timing! A client just brought to my attention the fact that our main website is failing through https. (works fine thru http) I just checked and my SSL cert for that site is not expired...ftp'd in and the cert is still there as it should be. hmmm 
The last email states that post migration, everything is working.
Like I didn't already have enough going on...and it's just started to rain! 
