Transcript of Steps after the break.

Navigate to C:\Windows\Inf\ and make a backup copy of nettcpip.inf

To Uninstall TCP/IP Protocol Stack

• Open C:\windows\inf\nettcpip.inf for editing
• under [MS_TCPIT. Primary Install]
• change “Characteristics = 0xa0″ to “Characteristics = 0×80″
• save file
• Open Network connections
• Right Click Local Area Connection
• Select Properties
• Click Install
• Click Protocol
• Chose Have Disk
• Type Path to nettcpip.inf
• Choose TCP/IP
• In Properties Screen
• Highlight TCP/IP and select Uninstall
• Reboot

To Re-install TCP/IP Protocol Stack

• Navigate to C:\Windows\inf\
• Edit nettcpip.inf
• Under [MS_TCPIP. Primary Install]
• Change “Characterisitcs = 0×80″ to “Characteristics = 0xa0″
• Save File
• Open Network Connections
• Right click Local Area Connection
• Select Properties
• Select Install
• Select Protocol
• Select Have Disk
• Type Path
• Choose TCP/IP
• Click Install
• Reboot

Dear Kate,

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.

Take Care,
John Appleseed

#ThankYouSteve

*000.000.000.000 represents your remote machines IP Address (can replaced with its Computer Name

**path\PNT# Represents the printer path followed by its name (PNT#)

Type the following commands into cmd.exe pushing enter after each line:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /c\\000.000.000.000 /n\path\PNT#

start /wait sc \\Computer-Name stop spooler
start /wait sc \\Computer-Name start spooler

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /c\\000.000.000.000 /n\path\PNT#

Line 1: Adds PNT# globally to all users on 000.000.000.000
Line 2: Stops the print spooler
Line 3: Starts the print spooler
Line 4: Sets PNT# as default on 000.000.000.000

To start with. The entire e-mail content was a single image that loaded. How you can tell if this is the case in your own e-mail is quite simple. In your mail client or web app you should have an option to either completely disable HTML e-mails, or to not load HTML images in an e-mail. This will then not display the “contents” of said UPS e-mail. A real e-mail from UPS will have text content not just an image of text.

Second, viewing deeper into the e-mails from, to, and other header information revealed the following. The e-mail which was supposedly “From UPS” to “My e-mail address” was actually sent “To randy@onlinesafetysite.com” and had a return path to “hippedyl304@rmksales.com”. This shows what would be an e-mail being “Faked and bouncing through other e-mail address’ mail servers.

The biggest thing to be worried about is the attachment. The attachment is there to “fill out a form” to receive your package. Opening this “attachment” actually downloads a ZIP file which contains an EXE file. As I was on my MAC I did the dirty work for your of opening the attachments on this e-mail. If you are on a Windows machine DO NOT open these attachments.

I won’t get into too many more details about the IP addresses and where they were actually located but I have attached an image of this e-mails header so you can look for reference how initially it looked like UPS had sent “Me” and e-mail but it was actually sent through to other people before it actually got to me. Plus you can’t even track the package number in the title of the e-mail.

I quickly reached out to UPS via twitter to verify and see if I could help with this fraud going on. They confirmed that there is malicious activity going on via e-mails using the UPS brand and integrity. If you have an e-mail from UPS that you are concerned with forward it to fraud@ups.com and they will send you a reply confirming whether the e-mail you received was fraudulent or legitimate. Plus it helps them with tracking these fakes.

Jabber
Screenname: facebookusername@chat.facebook.com
Password: yourfacebookpassword
Server: chat.facebook.com
Port: 5222
SSL: Do Not Use

XMPP:
Screenname: facebookusername@chat.facebook.com
Password: yourfacebookpassword
Server: chat.facebook.com
Port: 5222
SSL: Do Not Use

As you can see no authentication or encryption is used. That means that your password and username can be stolen by anyone sniffing your network traffic so use this at your own risk.

I am going to start in an odd place. The “non-standard” operating systems. Those such as AS/400. Most typical users at home will have no idea what that is, and to be completely honest, that is just fine. There is no need for everyone to know. As a job has had me using AS/400 I have came to realize its simplicity and ability to run so strong on such little resources. It is a great system for those such as inventory databases.

We can move on to the somewhat common and familiar Unix/Linux distributions. To start with, these make great servers for file and web serving. As is right now I have an old Gateway machine set up with Linux for a production environment in my apartment. Also, a version of Linux is being used to manage my wireless router as well.

Lets move to Apple now. As a graphic/web designer as well as a musician I have seen myself the advantages to the Mac system. Lets not argue that they are more expensive, that you can’t find as many applications for them, and all of the other cliche arguments. The truth is, I have first hand seen the time saved by using the Apple machines and their operating system. Cutting great amounts of time off of my design/production adventures.

Windows! What can we say. We love you, we get aggravated by you and your antics. We sit and get all things done that needed be done. Enjoy your games, your expandability, your controlability, and all you have to offer. Many of the previously mentioned things also aggravate us in which case we pull out a good old live Linux disc to repair your issues but you continue to chug away and run our corporate America and for that I thank you.

So once again as it stands. I use all three of the major operating systems. All in their place, all for a specific reason, and they all sit rather peacefully among each other in my humble little SOHO network. Sharing with each other, regulating each other, even arguing with each other like a small little family during a game of cards. In the end though, you all go back to task and get what needs to be done…done and move onto the next thing. Heres to you—All of you!