How to create a Password Protected Folder in Windows 7. This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to create a locked folder in Windows 7 without installing any additional 3rd party software. Update although the screenshots will be different, the method outlined in this tutorial to create a password protected folder does work in Windows 8. While the steps below will guide you in creating a hidden and password protected folder, this method is not 1. It will deter the average computer user enough, but an advanced user will be able to access the contents of this folder. Forums/getfile/59501/' alt='Vbs Delete All Files In A Folder And Subfolders Iphone' title='Vbs Delete All Files In A Folder And Subfolders Iphone' />If you want to create a truly secure and encrypted place to store files and folders that absolutely nobody will ever be able to access, see the tutorial How to Securely Store Files in Windows which includes installing software, but its completely free. Create a new folder and name it whatever you would like. Command-Prompt-Short-Address-Delete.png?x81309' alt='Vbs Delete All Files In A Folder And Subfolders Iphone' title='Vbs Delete All Files In A Folder And Subfolders Iphone' />Open the folder, right click on a blank area in it, then select New Text Document from the pop up menu. Open the text file you just created by double clicking it and copypaste in the following text. ECHO OFFtitle Folder Privateif EXIST Control Panel. With an Excel vba script to provision and create accounts. I was needing to grant full rights permissions to the folder and subfolders that were created by the tool. This worked great for me The only problem I had at first was when saving the text doc I had no option to save ALL FILES, which I found was because I did this. Today was a big day for the WanaCrypt0r ransomware as it took the world by storm by causing major outbreaks all over the world. While BleepingComputer has covered. Create 2 files baseline. Contents of baseline. Contents of baseline. EC2. 02. 0 3. AEA 1. A2. DD 0. 80. 02. B3. 03. 09. D goto UNLOCKif NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER CONFIRMecho Are you sure you want to lock the folderYNsetp cho if choY goto LOCKif choy goto LOCKif chon goto ENDif choN goto ENDecho Invalid choice. A complete list of the over 280 Command Prompt commands across Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP, including full descriptions of each CMD command. Now to run sysprep, navigate to that sysprep folder, hold SHIFT and right click and select Open New Command Windows Here. Next, input the following commands. CONFIRM LOCKren Private Control Panel. EC2. 02. 0 3. AEA 1. A2. DD 0. 80. 02. B3. 03. 09. Dattrib h s Control Panel. EC2. 02. 0 3. AEA 1. A2. DD 0. 80. 02. B3. 03. 09. Decho Folder lockedgoto End UNLOCKecho Enter password to unlock foldersetp pass if NOT pass PASSWORDGOESHERE goto FAILattrib h s Control Panel. EC2. 02. 0 3. AEA 1. A2. DD 0. 80. 02. B3. 03. 09. Dren Control Panel. EC2. 02. 0 3. AEA 1. A2. DD 0. 80. 02. B3. 03. 09. D Privateecho Folder Unlocked successfullygoto End FAILecho Invalid passwordgoto end MDLOCKERmd Privateecho Private created successfullygoto End End. In the above code, replace the key PASSWORDGOESHERE with the password you want to use to unlock the folder. For example if you want the password to be 1. NOT pass 1. 23. FAIL. Save your new file in the. To do this, make sure to change the Save as type to All Files. In the folder you created back in Step 1, double click the locker. Private where you can put anything you want. Upon exiting, double click the locker. It will prompt you to answer whether you want to lock your folder or not. Press Y and the private folder will disappear. In order to retrieve the Private folder, all you have to do is double click the locker. Step 4 and the folder will appear again for you to access. Thats it Again, this method is not truly secure. How to Securely Store Files in Windows will take you through the steps to create a really secure folder using free software. Wanna. Cry Wana Decryptor Wana. Crypt. 0r Info Technical Nose Dive. Today was a big day for the Wanna. Cry Wana. Crypt. Telefonica, Chinese Universities, the Russian Interior Ministry, and other organizations. While Bleeping. Computer will be covering these outbreaks in depth, I felt it may be a good idea to take a technical dive into the Wana. Crypt. 0r ransomware so those in the IT field who may be dealing with it can get a basic understanding of how it works. Unfortunately, at this time files encrypted by Wanna. Crypt. 0r can not be decrypted for free. If you need help or support with this ransomware, Bleeping. Computer has set up a dedicated Wana. Crypt. 0r Wana Decrypt. Help Support Topic. Is this ransomware called Wanna. Cry, Wanna. Cryptor, Wana. Instructional Rating Manual Skydiving Near. Crypt. 0r, or Wana Decrypt. While the internal name given by the developer for this ransomware is Wana. Crypt. 0r, you are going to see news articles, including mine, calling it other things. This is because the ransomware has a lock screendecryptor that is called Wana Decrypt. WNCRY. So what should we call it Personally, I think we should stick with Wana. Crypt. 0r as that is its true name. Unfortunately, most people will not call it that because the first thing they will see is the lock screen that is titled Wana Decrypt. As that is what most people will be searching for, we will be calling it Wana. Decrypt. 0r or Wanna. Cry during this article. How does Wanna. Cry Spread Malware. Hunter. Team first spotted Wana. Crypt. 0r a few weeks ago, but the ransomware for the most part was hardly distributed. Suddenly, Wanna. Cry exploded and began spreading like wild fire through an exploit called ETERNALBLUE, which is an alleged NSA exploit leaked online last month by hacking group called The Shadow Brokers. This ransomware is spreads through a Worm executable that scans the Internet for Windows servers that have the Samba TCP port 4. This port is the SMB port that the ETERNALBLUE exploit uses to gain access to a computer. When the Worm gains access to a computer it will create a copy of itself and execute the program on the infected computer. Once the Worm is running on the computer, it will try to connect to one of the following domains depending on the variant. If it is able to connect to this domain, then the Worm will not deploy the ransomware component and the victims files will not become encrypted. At the same time, the worm component will remain active and continue to try and infect other computers. Ultimately, this domain acts like a kill switch for the initialization of the ransomware and was discovered accidentally when a security researcher registered the domain to get statistics on infections. Currently this kill switch is active and the ransomware is no encrypting computers, but is still spreading to other computers. More information about this kill switch can be found in our Wana Decrypt. Ransomware Outbreak Temporarily Stopped By Accidental Hero article. If the Worm component is unable to connect to the above domain, though, it extracts a password protected ZIP file to the same folder as the Worm program. This zip file contains the ransomware, which is then executed and encrypts the files on the victims computer. More information about how the encryption works can be found below. As the Worm spreads by using a vulnerability in SMBv. Microsoft patched in March as part of security bulletin MS1. If you have not installed the updates mentioned in the MS1. STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW AND INSTALL IT. Yes, I did that all in caps because it is that important. While the ransomware is no longer spreading, it is trivial for the ransomware developer to simply release a new version without this killswitch. Therefore, install your updates so you dont lose your files when you become infected What is this Kill Switch Everyone is Talking AboutA kill switch is an event that is used to stop a program from continuing to execute. In the case of Wanna. Cry, the kill switch is a domain name that the Worm component of Wann. Cry connects to when it starts. If the worm executable is able to connect to this web site, the program quits and does not spread to any other machines or drop the ransomware component. On the other hand, if it is not able to connect to the kill switch domain, then the ransomware component is dropped and executed to encrypt the victims computer. When the Wanna. Cry worm was released on March 1. Since then, numerous other samples were released that contained other kill switches. It is generally thought that these new releases are in fact not being released by the original malware developer, but rather by people who are looking to cause mischief or by researchers who are analyzing the ransomware and mistakenly allow it to escape their labs. A full list of the kill switch domains is found at the end of this article. Is it possible to Decrypt Files Encrypted by Wanna. Cry Under certain circumstances, it may be possible to recover files encrypted by using the Wana. Kiwi program. This program will try to recreate the private decryption key from data stored in the memory of the Wanna. Cry process. Unfortunately, this means that in order for the tool to properly work, the computer can not have been rebooted, the Wanna. Cry process could not have been terminated at any point, and the data in memory has not been overwritten by other data. While the chances of successfully using this tool outside of a lab environment are slim, if your files are encrypted by Wanna. Cry then you should absolutely try Wana. Kiwi as you have nothing to lose. How does Wanna. Cry Encrypt a Computer When a computer becomes infected with Wana Decrypt. This embedded resource is a password protected zip folder that contains a variety of files that are used by and executed by Wana. Crypt. 0r. The Wana. Decrypt. 0r loader will then extract the contents of this zip file into the same folder and perform some startup tasks. It will first extract localized version of the ransom notes into the msg folder. The currently supported languages are Bulgarian, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Wana. Crypt. 0r will then download a TOR client from https dist. Task. Data folder. This TOR client is used to communicate with the ransomware C2 servers at gx. In order to prep the computer so that it can encrypt as many files as possible, Wana. Crypt. 0r will now execute the command icacls. Everyone F T C Q in order to change give everyone full permissions to the files located in the folder and subfolders under where the ransomware was executed. It then terminates processes associated with database servers and mail servers so it can encrypt databases and mail stores as well. The commands that are executed to terminate the database and exchange server processes are taskkill. MSExchange taskkill. Microsoft. Exchange. Now, Wana Decrypt. When encrypting files, Wana. Decrypt. 0r will scan all drives and mapped network drives for files that have one of the following extensions. PAQ,. ARC,. aes,. When encrypting a file it will add the WANACRY It will then append the. WNCRY extension to the encrypted file to denote that the file has been encrypted. For example, a file called test. WNCRY. It should also be noted that if a user uses a cloud storage service and regularly synchronizes their locate data with the cloud, the files on the cloud will be overwritten by the encrypted versions. When encrypting files, it will also store a PleaseReadMe. Wana. Decryptor. We will take a look at those files later. Finally, Wana. Crypt. Shadow Volume Copies, disable Windows startup recovery, clear Windows Server Backup history. The commands that are issued are C WindowsSys.