Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by rsync on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:57AM
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"I still sort of regret installing Windows 10 to this day because of the obnoxious Cortana bar it foisted upon my start menu that I can't get rid of. And yet not installing Windows 10 would've left me less secure with an OS hitting EOL for security updates much sooner."
Running an MS OS has been a one-way ticket to owned for roughly 18 years now.[1]
You are fragile to these things because you choose to be - not because this is a necessary condition of participating on computer networks.
This ransomware attack was based on an SMB vuln. One of the stuxnet vectors was an autorun vuln.[2] Would you wake the fuck up and see that it is 2017 and you're getting owned by SMB and autorun vulns ?
[1] Melissa virus was 1999, BO2k was 2000.
[2] Has any single file caused more mayhem in the world than autorun.inf ? The net negative effect of autorun.inf on the world must be in the tens of billions of dollars by now.
Running an MS OS has been a one-way ticket to owned for roughly 18 years now.[1]
You are fragile to these things because you choose to be - not because this is a necessary condition of participating on computer networks.
This ransomware attack was based on an SMB vuln. One of the stuxnet vectors was an autorun vuln.[2] Would you wake the fuck up and see that it is 2017 and you're getting owned by SMB and autorun vulns ?
[1] Melissa virus was 1999, BO2k was 2000.
[2] Has any single file caused more mayhem in the world than autorun.inf ? The net negative effect of autorun.inf on the world must be in the tens of billions of dollars by now.