looks like the world is being attacked by a very serious Ransomware virus.

so far UK, US, China, Russia, Spain and many more data's being hold to Ransom. its called WannaCry. and affects windows computers.

The infections seem to be deployed via a worm - a program that spreads by itself between computers.

Most other malicious programmes rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.

By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too.

Some experts say the attack may have been built to exploit a weakness in Microsoft systems that had been identified by the NSA and given the name EternalBlue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

 

[comput3rus3r]

Good thing you're too smart for it.

in the land of the blind...

 

[Yokimari]

in the land of the blind...

 

[Deleted User]

yes i know, it's always some spooky story of this ingenious virus. I've heard it many times before.

the sky is falling?

in the land of the blind...

Guys, he's 6 steps ahead of us. We can't turn him into another sheep of M$. He's too good!

 

[Yokimari]

Guys, he's 6 steps ahead of us. We can't turn him into another sheep of M$. He's too good!

/thread

Pack it up folks, we tried.

 

[comput3rus3r]

 

[Yokimari]

-image of crazy guy chasing another guy with a knife in front of a camera-

LOL oh my god.

 

[Deleted User]

So....we are the bad guys all along, and the fake news is painting the ransomware hackers as the bad guys? What is the point of posting this image?

 

[Deleted-355425]

So....we are the bad guys all along, and the fake news is painting the ransomware hackers as the bad guys? What is the point of posting this image?

Just stop, the guy is remedial.

 

[sarkwalvein]

So....we are the bad guys all along, and the fake news is painting the ransomware hackers as the bad guys? What is the point of posting this image?

There should be a better picture joke easier to find about the topic.
I can only think of the keywords "overblown by news media".

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

Your logic is what's bullshit, stupid, and immature..

Yes, of course. I'll be kind, ignore the fact that you gave exactly zero arguments and go on. What if we were in 2012 and I was using Windows 3.0, or even MS-DOS as an OS? An to those who are saying "Windblows XP stille receyvs epdets" LOL. You should just check Google. XP support dropped in 2014, and final SP3 support dropped back in 2016. So thank you for saying bullshit. The patched released by MS is exceptional because of an emergency.

 

[Deleted User]

Premium.

Woah.
I'm myself using free.

Also if you guys didn't know: If you have pirated MBAM, It will prompt you for a 20-50% off Pirate Discount so you can purchase it for less. Neat.

 

[Deleted-355425]

Woah.
I'm myself using free.

Also if you guys didn't know: If you have pirated MBAM, It will prompt you for a 20-50% off Pirate Discount so you can purchase it for less. Neat.

That's awesome and didn't know that! When its time to renew as its a pay yearly thing i will find a discount code

 

[hobbledehoy899]

LOL.

Business don't have the time and resources to spend time updating their computers, their constant workloads just don't allow it. Software compatibility is a whole other can of worms that involve webapps that only work with Internet Explorer 6.

 

[Deleted User]

Business don't have the time and resources to spend time updating their computers, their constant workloads just don't allow it. Software compatibility is a whole other can of worms that involve webapps that only work with Internet Explorer 6.

If it's critical issue, then they really should.
Other than that, most business servers update on-fly without need to reboot.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

If it's critical issue, then they really should.

I'll just say that there's a reason why "they" say that time is money, literally no matter what...

 

[nxwing]

Woah.
Also if you guys didn't know: If you have pirated MBAM, It will prompt you for a 20-50% off Pirate Discount so you can purchase it for less. Neat.

Time to be a pirate once more

 

[Deleted member 408979]

What the hell happened to this thread?

 

[MrJason005]

need to move to ubuntu asap, i've been putting aside long enough.

 

[KevinX8]

need to move to ubuntu asap, i've been putting aside long enough.

you forgot the /s, use a real distro like arch if you are being serious.

 

[GerbilSoft]

What the hell happened to this thread?

tl;dr some Windows "experts" who think they're safe even without updating because they don't open "sketchy" programs, even though this ransomware spreads using an SMBv1 exploit, which requires no user intervention. It's similar to MSBLAST and Sasser from the early 2000s in that regard, though with Windows Vista and later it's possible to disable SMBv1 as a workaround.

I'm always amused when a Windows "expert" shows that they know absolutely nothing about their own OS, like when they claim Windows 3.1 was the "first" Windows or something equally silly.