Phishing Email Apple Two-Factor Authentication Enabled, Service

For the record, here's a recent Phishing Email from "Apple" with Subject RE : [ Summary New Reports ] Statement-News message Info-payment [Alert] that made it into my Outlook inbox. 

What to do?

Normally, report them and label them as Phishing Email not SPAM (in your online email system), see below. But it looks like the forwared website has been taken down as of today  

Here's the email as seen in Outlook.com online

The links point to http://ow.ly/tKTm30glrvN  points to and very convincing Apple look alike site to get your info.

This is not active any longer -> https://www.review-info-payment1.com/upgrade.info

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

1. Check email "Apple Inc" <Dear-Admin.History.Account-Transfer-appleid2018@Update-Sumary-Account098-costumer039.legendsok.u122pdateyouinforeminadersugmarrylijmitedaccesyouraccoutservicepaksupriadi4536367webapps.account.live.mail.com> it not from apple but a live.com email.
2. Convert the email view from HTML to text, check for bad URLs.
3. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the same as the text then forget it.
4. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

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.

And look for phony links.

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 at Microsoft and government agencies

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/safety/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx

1-Click Install for Windows Media Taskbar Mini-Player for Windows 10 and Creators Update (64-bit)

This is an update to my original Windows Media Mini-Player on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit script.

Getting back Windows Media Mini-Player on Windows (64-bit) 10 and Creators Update, with a one click installer. Confirmed working on Falls Creators Update.

Windows Media Player 12+ version was missing the one of the best features of older Windows Media Players (WMP) and that was the mini-player that appeared when you minimized it. 

The WMP Mini-Player allows you to access the media player right from the Taskbar or system tray area.
Moreover, it displays the currently playing album, artist and provides next song pop-ups. This was a innovative feature, that oddly got removed?  Well, this installer will get it back for you.

Features:

• Windows Media Player Mini-Player 
• 1 click install and and proper uninstall - no registry files required
• Installer works for Windows 7, 8, 8.1,10, 10 Creators Update - 64 bit only

What does it install? 

The WMPTaskbarInstaller64.inf file is old style (Win95) installer file that installs task-bar Windows Media Mini-Player dll (wmpband.dll) for your computer. The source of the wmpband.dll comes from Windows 7.  

unadulterated file

Install Instructions

 WMPTaskbarInstaller64.zip

Prerequisites:  

You must set-up Windows Media Player first and played at least 1 audio file.
Your user account must be part Administrators group or you know Administrator password to install for this install to work.

1. Download zip and unzip into a directory
   
   Windows 7,8,8.1,10+ (64-bit) and unzip WMPTaskbarInstaller64.zip, 
   
   
   For (32-bit) version see original post.
   
   To check what version 32-bit or 64-bit of Windows you are running, run this in Command line (CMD.exe) windows;
   

   1	wmic os get osarchitecture

    
2. Right-click onWMPTaskbarInstaller64.inf and click Install
3. Click Yes to User Account Control pop-up.
   
   
4. Run Windows Media Player and minimize it.
5. Right-click on TaskBar, hover Toolbars and select Windows Media Player. 
   
   
   
   Make sure to Uncheck "Lock the taskbar".
   
   You may not see it appear at first, since explorer process (that contains taskbar process) has to be refreshed. You may try to select another toolbar like Links and activate it and deactivate it, repeat, repeat, repeat until Windows Media Payer shows up.
   
   If that does not work, you'll have to refresh the explorer process, see my post here on doing that.
6. When you select Windows Media Player toolbar the mini-player appears then you have voila, you have it working! Have fun.
   
   There are two versions of Windows Media Player installed in Windows 10, 32 and 64 bit. The default on my Win10, is 32-bit version player (see task manager image below).
   
   Therefore, this install mini-player dll (wmpband.dll) for both, same name but they are different file. The 32-bit (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmpband.dll - 97.0 KB) version and 64-bit (C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpband.dll - 267.0 KB) version . 
   
   
   
   
7. Potential install issues, if this install fails try this.
   
   Before installing again, check if the "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service" service is Stopped. Type services.msc and find "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service", right-click and chhoose Stop.
   
8. Update Mar 25 2018 - You have to reinstall this now with every named release  of Windows, like Fall Creators Update, Spring Creators Update, etc

Uninstall

The great thing about this WMPTaskbarInstaller64.inf, is it creates a uninstall option.

Goto Programs and Features, and double-click "Windows Media Player Taskbar mini-Player..." to uninstall.

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1-Click Installer for Presenters Desktop Shortcuts Tool for Windows 10 and Creators Update

This is an update to my original "Presentation Apps" Windows 7+ install script.

This utility is designed for Professional Presenter, Speakers and Instructors and Online Course-ware Developers (Mooks) to get quick access to common tools they use. 

This tool installs a "Presentation Apps" Context-Menu accessible from you Windows Desktop that contains the following handy shortcuts too; 

• Calculator
• Control Panel Properties to Mouse, Sound, and Display (to extend it)
• Magnifier (to zoom in on parts of the screen, during presentation)
• Snipping Tool (create presentation, capture portions of screen)
• Problem Steps Recorder - annotate full screen captures 
• Voice Recorder App - record sound using Window 10 Metro App
• Screen Recroder - Run Encoder 4 Screen Capture - you must first install Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 1 (SP2) free version records 10 mins at a time.
• Window Media Player (play audio and video files)
• Wordpad (quick annotations while presenting)

This utility has the following features; 

• works Windows 10 (and corresponding Server version) only 64-bit version
• adds link to Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture (must be installed)
• comes with proper uninstaller located in "Add or Remove Programs" oops Programs and Features

Prerequisites (kinda)

• Download and Install Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 1 (optional)
  
  It's free from Microsoft and works on Windows 10+, with one caveat; the free version records only 10 mins at a time.
  
  NOTE: If you don't install the Screen Recorder link will simply not work.

Install

Prerequisite:  Your user account must be part Administrators group or you know Administrator password to install.

1. Tip! Back-up your registry as a precaution.
2. Download and unzip PresentationAppsWin10.zip.
3. Simply, right-click onPresentationAppsWin10.inf and click Install, that's it.

Done.

Confirm UAC Installation (click yes).

Done.

How to Use

To test this now right-click anywhere on the Desktop and you see the new context menu "Presentation Apps" option!

Uninstall

The great thing about this inf file, is it creates a uninstall option.

Goto Programs and Features, and double-click "Desktop Presentation Apps Context-Menu (Uninstall only)" to uninstall.

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