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

 

[jastolze]

A little late but there's a simple way to stopping this Ransomware. One of the features it has basically screwed itself over and ended the process. You can read about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...ansomware-outbreak-stopped-by-researcher/amp/

 

[Deleted User]

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

That's not the right attitude to welcome a person into linux. That kind of superiority is what makes people hate the linux community. "Pffft if it comes with a gui at the start it's not a REAL MAN'S DISTRO"

Ubuntu is fine, but you can recommend people distros.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't think there've been very many places in Canada that have been affected by this, or at least that I've heard of. I heard something about the University of Calgary and a hospital in Ontario, but that might have to do with a similar, past incident or something.
Health services here use a mix of operating systems. I've seen Windows XP, OSX, and Oracle Solaris. Not sure what OSes other places like universities use though.

 

[Joom]

A little late but there's a simple way to stopping this Ransomware. One of the features it has basically screwed itself over and ended the process. You can read about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...ansomware-outbreak-stopped-by-researcher/amp/

Hehehe, I know the dude behind this. He's developed some rather intricate ring0 rootkits in the past. We used to be rather active on the OpenSC and TrojanForge forums before they went defunct. I miss those days. A lot of brilliant reverse engineers came from those places.

 

[Pluupy]

i like how you call that updated

I knew exactly what I was doing.

 

[Selim873]

dont use windows.

B- but... mah games.

 

[the_randomizer]

B- but... mah games.

Linux and Mac OS are both based on Unix, so that means they don't run real games ;O;

 

[Yokimari]

What the hell happened to this thread?

Artist Rendition of this thread.

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[Joom]

Linux and Mac OS are both based on Unix, so that means they don't run real games ;O;

You've not been on Steam for the past couple years I see.

 

[Deleted User]

Linux and Mac OS are both based on Unix, so that means they don't run real games ;O;

You're probably memeing or whatever, but Linux can run tons of games, through steam and steam through wine.

 

[the_randomizer]

You've not been on Steam for the past couple years I see.

It's called a joke. I have no use for Mac OS or Linux. Anyways. I wish people would just let people use Windows, and stop suggesting we use Linux ad nauseum. We get it, windows isn't perfect, no OS is, but come on, people need to stop chiding people for not using Linux or vice versa.

 

[Selim873]

Linux and Mac OS are both based on Unix, so that means they don't run real games ;O;

Trust me, I would be using Linux if it weren't for games. lol I tried dual booting and I ended up just leaving my Linux OS alone for Windows as it was already running.

It'd be nice if I could just have a KVM running in the background at all times but use something similar to VNC and run my games through a browser via local IP. I'm sure with Rainway coming out, someone will figure it out. It's just too much work, plus I plan to get into programming classes at school and they use Visual Basic for starters.

 

[Deleted User]

Trust me, I would be using Linux if it weren't for games. lol I tried dual booting and I ended up just leaving my Linux OS alone for Windows as it was already running.

What games do you play so much that can't be run on Linux?

 

[the_randomizer]

I'd rather just dual boot Linux and Windows and have the best of both worlds, there, problem solved. Mac OS I couldn't give a damn about.

 

[Joom]

It's called a joke. I have no use for Mac OS or Linux. Anyways. I wish people would just let people use Windows, and stop suggesting we use Linux ad nauseum. We get it, windows isn't perfect, no OS is, but come on, people need to stop chiding people for not using Linux or vice versa.

I don't care what people use. I just care when people give terrible excuses to not use another OS.

Mac OS I couldn't give a damn about.

It's better than Linux. *shrug* Gotta love that FreeBSD code base. True UNIX ftw, heh.

 

[Selim873]

What games do you play so much that can't be run on Linux?

FFXIV, I always had issues getting it to run. I tried Gallium Nine but it didn't work for me as for some reason Optimus isn't supported. Hadn't tried on my desktop yet. Battlefield 4 and 1, Dark Souls 3, Titanfall 2. Eventually I end up bumping into another game I can't get running through Wine. If anything, I'm hoping someone can find a way to replace Windows explorer with a linux desktop environment using WSL. VMWare is evolving pretty well and has started to run games, but only DirectX 10 maximum.

 

[Joom]

FFXIV, I always had issues getting it to run. Battlefield 4 and 1, Dark Souls 3, Titanfall 2. Eventually I end up bumping into another game I can't get running through Wine. If anything, I'm hoping someone can find a way to replace Windows explorer with a linux desktop environment using WSL. VMWare is evolving pretty well and has started to run games, but only DirectX 10 maximum.

For what it's worth there's KDE and bbLean available for Windows. There are also tons of third party file managers that fully replace Explorer.

 

[Selim873]

For what it's worth there's KDE and bbLean available for Windows.

KDE for Windows was long abandoned wasn't it? I do recall also trying bbLean but I didn't like it. I used SharpEnviro for a while and loved it but I ran into compatibility issues with Windows 8.1 and I assume it'll be the same with Windows 10, and I actually really like Windows 10 so I don't plan to go back to 7, and I found out SharpEnviro was discontinued so I stopped using it. I might give it another shot and look for workarounds.

EDIT: bbLean is apparently discontinued but is succeeded by bbZero. I'll have to try it.

 

[Joom]

KDE for Windows was long abandoned wasn't it? I do recall also trying bbLean but I didn't like it. I used SharpEnviro for a while but I ran into compatibility issues with Windows 8.1 and I assume it'll be the same with Windows 10, and I actually really like Windows 10 so I don't plan to go back to 7, and I found out SharpEnviro was discontinued so I stopped using it. I might give it another shot and look for workarounds.

I was actually a really big fan of LiteStep. Not sure how well it works on systems past 7, but I agree with you about 10; I really like it as well.

 

[the_randomizer]

I don't care what people use. I just care when people give terrible excuses to not use another OS.


It's better than Linux. *shrug* Gotta love that FreeBSD code base. True UNIX ftw, heh.

I don't like command line interfaces and I don't like the fact that some of my games and programs don't work on Linux. That's a good enough of an excuse to me. It is what it is. And then there's nVidia Optimus, which runs like s**t on Linux and you can't force it to turn on or off whenever you want, no way to override it.