Tech Snaglets

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  • Recently downloaded and Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is categorizing Emacs as malicious. Emacs-31.1-installer.exe was released very recently (August 24, 2026), so a new Windows installer having little reputation is quite plausible.It doesn’t necessarily mean GNU Emacs is malicious. The screenshot is showing a Windows reputation warning, ...
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  • Autoruns v13.100 By Mark RussinovichPublished: April, 22nd 2021 v13.99 no longer works on Windows 7. You'll get the following error--------------------------- autoruns.exe - Entry Point Not Found --------------------------- The procedure entry point GetProcessInformation could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll. ...