How to determine if application is 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 10+

Windows software developers denote x86 stands for 32-bit program and x64 stands 64-bit programs. The 64-bit version of the program is usually denoted by suffixing 64 or x64 with the filename — e.g., PlainTextClipbpard.exe vs. PlainTextClipbpard.exe. In some cases, the bitness notation may be missing, and you may be wondering if the executable is 32-bit or 64-bit.

To check if your current running program is 32-bit or 64-bit; 

1. Open Task Manager and select the Details tab in Windows10+
2. Right-click on the column header and click Select columns. The column header is the row that has the caption for each column, such as Image Name, PID, Status etc. 
3. Enable the Platform checkbox and click OK. It will indicate if programs is 32-bit or 64-bit.
4. Also recommend click command line to get path/location on disk to the file running exe.
   
   
   
   
   

To determine and individual file or dll use sigcheck from the command line; 

sigcheck c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe

returns

Sigcheck v2.82 - File version and signature viewer
Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe:
        Verified:       Signed
        Signing date:   12:48 AM 10-Jul-15
        Publisher:      Microsoft Windows
        Company:        Microsoft Corporation
        Description:    Notepad
        Product:        Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
        Prod version:   6.1.7601.18917
        File version:   6.1.7601.18917 (win7sp1_gdr.150709-0600)
        MachineType:    64-bit

Download for free - Sigcheck - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs

Disable Year Month Listing efficiently for Wordpress Using .htaccess

Here's how to "disable" redirect URLs with Year/Month efficiently in WordPress using .htaccess. 

Place this at the top before # BEGIN WordPress and # BEGIN iThemes Security and other security plugins.

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#redirects yoursite.com/2022/01 to new url - Wed 02-Feb-22 8:34pm metadataconsulting.ca - 
RewriteRule ^\d{4}\/\d{2}/(.*)$ https://yoursite.com/your/new/url [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\d{4}\/\d{2}$ https://yoursite.com/your/new/url [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

Phishing Coinbase email with subject [Notice] Follow up on your recent balance - We sent an Alert From Coinbase about an Withdrawl on issue with your device

For the record, this is Coinbase spam email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "[Notice] Follow up on your recent balance - We sent an Alert From Coinbase about an Withdrawl on issue with your device"

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

From : Coinbase Alerts <capacity@capacitytms.com> Subject : [Notice] Follow up on your recent balance - We sent an Alert From Coinbase about an Withdrawl on issue with your device ...

PHISHING LINKs;

Hover over button
1. https://www.mac-360.com/

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 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 received 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