Monday, December 1, 2025

Cyber Monday Sale on the best tool to automate a fix for Path Tool Long Error


 

Path Too Long Auto Fixer Tool is the 1st tool that discovers, reports and auto corrects filenames and paths that are too long to fit under the Windows MAXPATH 260-character limit. Enterprise tested and driven. 

Main Features 

þ Identifies and auto fixes long paths in bulk
þ Discovers all long paths
þ Reports them in an Excel generated file to communicate to your users
þ Choose how to shrink paths, remove space, underscores, punctuations or hyphens/dashes.
þ Remove explicit words/characters from the paths.
þ Search and replace words from a corporate glossary in the path, PRD becomes Production
þ Explicite copy of create date, last accessed date and modified date maintained 
þ Explicite copy of hidden and read-only file attributes
þ Explicite ACLs copy and output, similar to icacls.exe
¹ 2 stage, failsafe redundant copy - fully logged transaction file
 

Enterprise Edtn

> Supports UNIX mounts of path 4096 characters long
ÿ High-speed Command line for script ability and automation
þ Portable Edition available
Ö BUILT-IN COLLISION AVOIDANCE - if two files shrink to same name, this will guarantee uniqueness.
Ö CONSOLIDATE - allows you consolidate long paths to same directories, upon shortening process.

Friday, November 28, 2025

dotNET Conference 2025 Top Videos Playlist




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Thursday, November 27, 2025

TD Phishing email with subject Official Compliance Communication - Immediate Renewal of W-8BEN Form Required


For the record, this is
TD phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "Official Compliance Communication - Immediate Renewal of W-8BEN Form Required" 


What to do?  Report them, go to bottom of page. 



From : TD Direct Investing <notify@epplhb.com>
Subject : 
Official Compliance Communication - Immediate Renewal of W-8BEN Form Required





ALSO, SHAME ON TD



TD took Epstein's money after Deutsche Bank severed ties with the disgraced financier, source says | Financial Post


PHISHING LINKs;

1. Hover over image

https://jpikwsr.com/?token=xxxxxxxx 


How to tell this is a Phishing email?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the  company's website then forget it.
  3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from original domain, like apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing

If you have recievied this email take further 

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/


Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx