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

 

[Vipera]

Gotta love the smugness of the Linux community leaking in this thread.

We get it, you get off by using an open source OS and Windows is corporate evil and also full of viruses. There's also the little fact that Linux is used on roughly 2% of PCs worldwide and no hacker in their right minds is going to waste time and resources to pull an exploit to steal from 2% of the PCs worldwide. And if it were the case, I'm sure that non-paid professionals would fight in huge queues to fix those exploits first. Oh yes, we see it all the time with Android and Google's numerous updates that never leave any phone behind! And Google is corporate evil, imagine if the job was left to a bunch of amateurs who treat it as hobby and get pissed off at the community whenever they ask for an update.

Be thankful of the fact that 98% of PC users doesn't use the platform and allows you to be safe, and shut the hell up.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Gotta love the smugness of the Linux community leaking in this thread.

We get it, you get off by using an open source OS and Windows is corporate evil and also full of viruses. There's also the little fact that Linux is used on roughly 2% of PCs worldwide and no hacker in their right minds is going to waste time and resources to pull an exploit to steal from 2% of the PCs worldwide. And if it were the case, I'm sure that non-paid professionals would fight in huge queues to fix those exploits first. Oh yes, we see it all the time with Android and Google's numerous updates that never leave any phone behind! And Google is corporate evil, imagine if the job was left to a bunch of amateurs who treat it as hobby and get pissed off at the community whenever they ask for an update.

Be thankful of the fact that 98% of PC users doesn't use the platform and allows you to be safe, and shut the hell up.

What is this about corporate evil?
Talk about a narrative.

 

[Deleted User]

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

Steam only install packages needed to launch via Wine

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

>Implying wine is actually good and doesn't have any issue what-so-ever
lmao

 

[samcambolt270]

so, how does one even get infected by it? should we disconnect till it blows over?

 

[Deleted User]

so, how does one even get infected by it? should we disconnect till it blows over?

it takes advantage over leaked NSA tools [read: Dumb Americans which look to spy on you}, it basically sends it over e-mails, infected websites and eh, it can attack you, or somebody can attack you even if you do nothing.

Nah, just update your Windows and you will be invulnerable to this. If you already updated, it's okay. If you didn't, do it ASAP.

 

[samcambolt270]

it takes advantage over leaked NSA tools [read: Dumb Americans which look to spy on you}, it basically sends it over e-mails, infected websites and eh, it can attack you, or somebody can attack you even if you do nothing.

Nah, just update your Windows and you will be invulnerable to this. If you already updated, it's okay. If you didn't, do it ASAP.

well, my windows 10 force updated a few days ago, i dont know if i can do it again manually.

 

[GerbilSoft]

well, my windows 10 force updated a few days ago, i dont know if i can do it again manually.

If you're using 1703, you're fine.

>Implying wine is actually good and doesn't have any issue what-so-ever
lmao

Windows not being perfect = A-OK
Wine not being perfect = worst thing ever

Brillant logic.

There's also the little fact that Linux is used on roughly 2% of PCs worldwide and no hacker in their right minds is going to waste time and resources to pull an exploit to steal from 2% of the PCs worldwide.

Yeah, there's no possibility that anyone would ever find and exploit bugs in Linux (and other Unix-like) systems on a wide scale because no one uses Linux. Except for those two bugs I just linked there, which affected thousands of websites across the world.

I find it interesting how the Microsoft apologists try to make Linux sound more secure than it really is.

 

[Garblant]

I have to remember how to re-enable updates again (I disabled updates via disabling privileges to a certain file, but I forgot what the program was called...)

 

[samcambolt270]

If you're using 1703, you're fine.


Windows not being perfect = A-OK
Wine not being perfect = worst thing ever

Brillant logic.


Yeah, there's no possibility that anyone would ever find and exploit bugs in Linux (and other Unix-like) systems on a wide scale because no one uses Linux. Except for those two bugs I just linked there, which affected thousands of websites across the world.

I find it interesting how the Microsoft apologists try to make Linux sound more secure than it really is.

I have no idea which version i have. checking updates say 1607, but they all do so i dont know if thats the version or not.

 

[KevinX8]

I have no idea which version i have. checking updates say 1607, but they all do so i dont know if thats the version or not.

that's the windows 10 Anniversary update lol, you have a pretty high chance of still being vulnerable to the exploit.

 

[samcambolt270]

that's the windows 10 Anniversary update lol, you have a pretty high chance of still being vulnerable to the exploit.

it literally just update 3 days ago though, why would it update to an old version? and why does every update in the update history have the same version?

 

[Joom]

Steam only install packages needed to launch via Wine

Steam runs natively on Linux and OS X. What are you talking about? The only games I know of that use Wine are GTA 3, VC, and SA.

 

[KevinX8]

it literally just update 3 days ago though, why would it update to an old version? and why does every update in the update history have the same version?

the version number only changes from feature updates, security updates have no effect on the version number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history
as you can see your windows version is from July so there is no guarantee you are safe from the exploit so I would advise to update immediately to the newest version of windows 10

 

[samcambolt270]

the version number only changes from feature updates, security updates have no effect on the version number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history
as you can see your windows version is from July so there is no guarantee you are safe from the exploit so I would advise to update immediately to the newest version of windows 10

I tried. It says my device is up to date...

 

[karloz25]

ITS OVER...

Global cyber-attack: Security blogger halts ransomware 'by accident'
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39907049

 

[sarkwalvein]

Steam runs natively on Linux and OS X. What are you talking about? The only games I know of that use Wine are GTA 3, VC, and SA.

Of course it runs natively, and though the selection of games is smaller in comparison, they all run quite well. But I think it is a lost cause and wasted effort to try to let them realize.
What for anyway?
They want to believe everything runs on wine, let them, they want to believe it's even necessary to run a VM, let them believe. Fighting stubbornness is headache inducing, and at the end, whatever floats each ones boats, I couldn't care less myself.

They say ignorance is bliss, I quite disagree, but I will not go through the PITA of trying to make anybody else realize, only to get more failure induced headaches.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

ITS OVER...

Global cyber-attack: Security blogger halts ransomware 'by accident'
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39907049

WARNING! IT IS NOT OVER!
As he implied in his own blog, it is only a temporary stop to the propagation.
This will come back again after the ransomers modify the code, expected to be this Monday.
Use well the time between to update your OS ASAP.

 

[GerbilSoft]

They want to believe everything runs on wine, let them, they want to believe it's even necessary to run a VM, let them believe. Fighting stubbornness is headache inducing, and at the end, whatever floats each ones boats, I couldn't care less myself.

Please point out who in this thread has said that Wine runs everything perfectly.

ITS OVER...

Global cyber-attack: Security blogger halts ransomware 'by accident'
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39907049

For now. Only that specific one has been halted. It wouldn't take too long to modify this ransomware to use a different killswitch, or none at all.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Of course it runs natively, and though the selection of games is smaller in comparison, they all run quite well. But I think it is a lost cause and wasted effort to try to let them realize.
What for anyway?
They want to believe everything runs on wine, let them, they want to believe it's even necessary to run a VM, let them believe. Fighting stubbornness is headache inducing, and at the end, whatever floats each ones boats, I couldn't care less myself.

They say ignorance is bliss, I quite disagree, but I will not go through the PITA of trying to make anybody else realize, only to get more failure induced headaches.

That's something i still don't understand about this community. I do not game on pc and i think i never will, but if yourself admited that the selection of games available for linux is quite small, then windows users have a point stating that they want the most games possible without lossing compatibility or perfomance...

 

[sarkwalvein]

Please point out who in this thread has said that Wine runs everything perfectly.

What?
I didn't realize someone said such a thing...
But why do you want me to look that for you?

 

[GerbilSoft]

What?
I didn't realize someone said such a thing...
But why do you want me to look that for you?

But I think it is a lost cause and wasted effort to try to let them realize.
What for anyway?
They want to believe everything runs on wine, let them

So you're denying your own quote, much like FAKE NEWS sites.