Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
by nostoc on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:14AM
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What OS?
All OSes vulnerable to wannacry are still under support.
Contrary to popular belief, wannacry will not spread to windows XP, it will just crash it. It will run on it if you fire the executable manually, but it will not infect an XP host through SMB.
Re:A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
by macrael on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:55PM
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Oh? I had heard that NHS didn't have access to the patch but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I was under the impression that XP was the main vulnerable OS under WannaCry
All OSes vulnerable to wannacry are still under support.
Contrary to popular belief, wannacry will not spread to windows XP, it will just crash it. It will run on it if you fire the executable manually, but it will not infect an XP host through SMB.