Anthony kosednar

Tech Cleaner

2013-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

One of the main greuling parts of working with Windows business and home computer users is when you need to clean up their computer. However, this can be very time consuming. As a result, I wrote a little script in Autoit (a quick and easy scripting language) to do most of the work for me.

Here’s an overview of what it does:

Creates some directories to run (and creates a log file)
Kills Non-Whitelisted Processes
Checks Servces
Backups Registry
Checks Registry
Kills any Proxies
Downloads ComboFix, Rkill, Tdskiller, CCleaner, Defraggler, Unlocker, Revouninstaller
Installs Microsoft Essentials, and updates it
Runs Rkill
Runs TSKiller
Runs ComboFix
Runs CCleaner
Runs Defraggler

You can find the code for the script in its repo on github at https://github.com/akosednar/TechCleaner.

Please note, this software is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. It is free to use and edit for personal, and non-profit projects but you will need to contact me for permission to use this commcerially.

Also note, it requires the following to compile:

CompInfo.au3 by JSThePatriot
Zip.au3 by torels_
WinHttp.au3 by trancexx, ProgAndy

At the moment, I plan on rewritting much of the script. I also plan on adding features to account for a combofix reboot, deploy logmein rescue, and more.

If you have any comments or feature requests, or just want to contribute to the code check out the Git repo and submit an issue or pull request.

A New Year

2013-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Well last year’s plan to post more frequently did not turn out how I planned. I had a lot more go on last year then I thought would happen. I finished my thesis, graduate high school, started colleged, and did a lot of work.

However, this year will be different! This year, I will be publishing blog entries more often, as well as publishing code samples to my github (with a blog post overviewing it).

So let’s hope this works, and you start seeing a lot more posts!

Jekyll. Why?

2012-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

I have recently changed my personal site from using Wordpress to a Jekyll site hosted on Github Pages. As a result, my whole site loads much faster. This will improve my search rankings as well as the experience for my users.

I was ultimately convinced by Henry Mercer’s post, Why I Switched to Jekyll. He talks about the same benefits which I describe above, as well as goes in depth about the system.

In addition to what Henry states, I wanted to start blogging once again. I am generally a busy person, and find myself frequenting text editors more than web page or application GUI’s. This shown by how 95% of anything I write starts in the notes app on my iPhone. Writing this way helps me remove distractions, and provides more focus. When I am writing for the Jekyll engine, I do not have to be bogged down by complex syntax or various GUI’s. I can write my post in a normal format, save it, push it to my git repo, and boom…generated. (On a side note, its pretty cool having a git repo of your posts.) It is dead simple and easy to use!That’s why I chose Jekyll.

I really enjoy typing up a blog post, for once in a very long time. You can expect a lot more posts in the future, because of this!

Test

2012-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

This is a test post to test the current system :) So you can most likely ignore it.

However, this is my first post on this system. So if this works…well…time to celebrate!