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Re:WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history by remx on Sunday May 14, 2017 @01:08PM (#14336396)
This is what I want to know[0] too.

To mitigate, you can disable SMB1.0 with the following command. Make sure to run as administrator:

    dism /online /norestart /disable-feature /featurename:SMB1Protocol
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335845
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Re:WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history by syshum on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:14PM (#14336780)
To mitigate, Install Security Patches in a Timely manner.

Also note that only works on windows 7 and later, dism is not a tool for XP or Windows 2003 which seem to be the largest numbers hit by this since there is/was no patches for them

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Re:WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history by technion on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:50PM (#14339026)
Careful, most old scanners out there only talk SMB1.

I'm all for recommending defence in depth, but please study changes like this before doing them.

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