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

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

ME came and went so fast no one noticed it.

That reminds me of Vista.

Portugal was also affected

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Well, they shouldn't be using Windows 2000 anymore.

 

[Yepi69]

That reminds me of Vista. [emoji14]


Well, they shouldn't be using Windows 2000 anymore.

Didn't it affect Windows 7/10 computers?

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[Byokugen]

Put Serbia on that list

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Didn't it affect Windows 7/10 computers?

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I was just kidding. But people in Portugal, at least in less economically stable cities and rural areas aren't really too up to date with tech, a few will though not exactly the majority.

Despite that, said people still go out of their way to owning the latest iPhone, Galaxy, high-end cars, large HDTVs and so on. Credit cards.

 

[drwhojan]

They should NOT have used!

 

[Garblant]

I was just kidding. But people in Portugal, at least in less economically stable cities and rural areas aren't really too up to date with tech, a few will though not exactly the majority.

Despite that, said people still go out of their way to owning the latest iPhone, Galaxy, high-end cars, large HDTVs and so on. Credit cards.

Greed is a powerful thing...
(In terms of buying tons of expensive stuff despite their situation)

 

[Princess Emily]

Just stumbled on this though by chance: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4503346/Surf-dude-saved-day-foiling-ransomware-virus.html

U mad, ransomware creator?

 

[Joom]

You missed off

• No one gives a shit about linux.

Microsoft runs Linux on their servers. They don't even like Windows. :^)

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Actually, that pretty much random. Touch Bar MBPs have issues because of drivers. Acually, that's all about drivers.


Sorry, but Debian and its derivatives, as well as Fedora, Arch, etc., and even macOS which is Darwin-based, are all superior to Win from a technical standpoint. They are Unix-based. Developping on a Unix-based system is a piece of kek (Falcon kek), and there is the almighty Python. Windows has as its major pro that it is widespread, so mainstream devs, companies&co are implicitly forced to dev for Windows. But 90% of servers in the world actually run on Linux.

macOS is actually true UNIX and the only OS today that is considered to be (it's UNIX certified).

 

[samcambolt270]

well, updating to 1703 was a mistake. now my icons keep rearranging themselves for no reason, its using way more ram, and i keep getting two errors when i startup, and i cant figure out what they are for, or whats triggering them.

 

[evandixon]

Microsoft runs Linux on their servers.

They also run Windows on their other servers, what's your point?

 

[sarkwalvein]

Enough of watching this pointless flame war for me...

 

[Yepi69]

I was just kidding. But people in Portugal, at least in less economically stable cities and rural areas aren't really too up to date with tech, a few will though not exactly the majority.

Despite that, said people still go out of their way to owning the latest iPhone, Galaxy, high-end cars, large HDTVs and so on. Credit cards.

All ATMs in Portugal still use Windows 98 and XP

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[Joom]

They also run Windows on their other servers, what's your point?

I guess you ignored the quote block. How did you miss my point?

 

[Deleted member 373057]

I just use Linux lol.

Games? Last game I played was Pokemon SM in November. Haven't touched it since. I'm not much of a gamer. At all.
Photoshop? I don't edit pictures.
Video editors etc? The odd time I need to make a video, Kdenlive is good enough.

I'm a CLI type of guy, GUIs are nice in some situations, but I definitely use ``man`` more. If you know what I mean :^)

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Just install "Malwarebytes" it's the Chuck Norris against Ransomware

Premium or free as well? I'm using free currently

 

[Joom]

Premium or free as well? I'm using free currently

Free suffices. The premium version just offers real-time monitoring and a firewall. I say that if you're going to get a commercial AV go with ESET Smart Security. It has an amazing firewall, a router penetration tester, and it's really good at determining heuristics. It's also really good at blocking web based attacks.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Free suffices. The premium version just offers real-time monitoring and a firewall. I say that if you're going to get a commercial AV go with ESET Smart Security. It has an amazing firewall, a router penetration tester, and it's really good at determining heuristics.

I just use the free version of Malwarebytes and AVG free (even though it's ass and false positives a lot of stuff)

 

[Joom]

I just use the free version of Malwarebytes and AVG free (even though it's ass and false positives a lot of stuff)

Having multiple AVs is a bad idea due to how they hook into the kernel. It can lead to registry problems and even a broken boot sequence. And yeah, I really despise AVG since it's overly sensitive to all the wrong things.

 

[SaffronXL]

Oh good, a Windows vs Mac vs Linux argument, how new and different /s

Media creation: Mac

Media consumption: Windows

Software and web development: Linux

Windows will always have the best driver support, so I prefer to run it natively and virtualize everything else.

 

[SonicCloud]

Hm , i guess im gonna be more paranoid when using the internet rip