Will Ransompocalypse of May 2017 finally kill Microsoft and

>>60351807

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Are you talking about the Wcry Ransomware? Cuz its happening

>>60352509
They were mostly running XP. You could argue if they were using FOSS they could patch it themselves, but they're probably too lazy in the first place.

>>60352542
quit shilling your own thread, fag.

>>60352606
damn right it's happening. EU is on a total lockdown. you can't even go to see a doctor in the UK right now.

>>60352689
Bullshit. Even Windows 10 is affected. All previous versions are affected as well.

>>60352689
all screen showed this ran on W7

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This just in russian cops got hacked

>>60352800
Oooops!

>>60352800
Well Russia was already financing alternatives, and actually did talk about the possibility to switch away from Windows, because it is made by the west, not because of technical reasons.

>>60352864
Let me tell you something about russian politicians and the internet! those fuckers raised the cost of internet because they allegedly were buyng servers to store valuable data on terrorist activity on the net

>>60352864
>Russia financing something
Nice name for corruption

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>>60352738

Sure it's affected if you open an attachment or download a dropper.

Can't spread via SMB if you patched in March though.

>>60352968
Preach it!

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>>60352509
Windows sucking shit doesn't somehow make OSX or Linux good

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Fuck

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>>60353094
Enjoy your Microsoft® Windows™

>>60353094
>2560*1440
>not a screenshot
my brain

>>60353094
suka blyat!

>>60353094
What did you do to get that?

>>60353126
HAХУЙ ИДИ!

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>>60352509
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>60353061
Even if all of them are shit only one of them is free. Not a tough choice desu

>>60352738
>Even Windows 10 is affected. All previous versions are affected as well.

Only if you haven't patched since March.

Remember all those faggots who were "MUH PATCHING" about Microsoft forcing patches for Windows 10? The ones that did everything they could to stop Microsoft from forcing them to apply new patches? Those same faggots are the ones getting hit by this and it's the same faggots who are now posting shit like OP

>>60353168
Cocи cпepмy дaльшe, никчeмный cпepмoблядoк!

How do they get it?

Are employees playing yahtzee on dubious site sor what?

>>60353198
>there is no organizational cost to switching OS platforms beyond the licensing cost of the OS for companies

Guess how I can tell you are a NEET or a shitlord student who has never worked a real IT job in his life?

>>60353094
Did your computer seem slow before this happened? Because my pc was slow as shit tonight and I'm starting to fear it was encrypting stuff

>>60353241
I wasn't talking about companies but about your personal choice. You can make the right one, I believe in you anon.

How did this fuck the NHS so badly?

Can't they just roll everything back to their last backup?

I mean...they so back their shit up, right?

>>60353207
>Only if you haven't patched since March.
Only...
if...

excuses-excuses...

>>60353408
>backing up hundreds of thousands of computers...
yeah, no.

>>60352509
Honestly how the fuck do you people get ransomware on your computers these days? Are you downloading torrents with random exe's and have no AV/AM? ARe you still running flash in web browsers?

>>60353576
Email, phishing, social engineering... millions of ways. Most are easy. Even intelligent people fall for it.

Windows 10 user, no problems here ;)

>>60353429
Hospital data is surely based on a centralised data warehouse though, I find it hard to imagine they just had everything locally

>>60354097
They couldn't bother to apply a two month old update that prevented this very problem.
Let that joggle your imagination for a minute, anon.

>>60352509
>tfw comfy with Xubuntu
>Watch wincuckolds all around the world cry and burn
>Current state of wincucks: suicide watch

>>60352509
Fucking MS shill, leave.

>>60352738
Most GP surgeries aren't affected. I manage the systems for many in my area.

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lol

>>60352509
>Will Ransompocalypse of May 2017 finally kill Microsoft and garbage OS that is Windows?
No. People will forget about it within weeks

What distro should I install?

>>60354211
what if the surgery needs MRI data? for example, brain surgery? What then? You need computers for EVERY MAJOR surgery. Even hear surgery needs xray machines that are hooked up to computers.

PS: Here's 50 rupees for that post, Mr Poojeet.

>>60354223
No more trains for you, Germanistan. kek

>>60352509
no. normies are really ignorant people and they will forget this ransom thing when the media stops talking about it.

>>60354246
Win 7

>>60352509
I really hope this maleware pwn's so many computers that entire cities start shutting down. I want to hear people on the street talking about how they can't get any work done because their work computer is fucked.

Media has been trying kill Microsoft for years. It's not going to happen, OP is just another apple faggot trashing up /g/ at every chance.

>>60354530
I can't tell if you're joking, if the media wanted to sink MS they could've done so easily at multiple points. They just want a ransom or some cooperation of their own.

>>60352509

No -- the shills will repair the damage, unless shit starts shutting down traffic and other vital infrastructure so that there are riots. Unfortunately, it would take fatalities to get people off this shit OS.

>>60352509
> This level of vulnerablitity brought to you by Pajeet.

>>60354246
ubuntu mate for comfiest just werks experience

>>60355038
Linux Mint is better. Cinnamon is still being actively developed.

Retina Display doesn't have this problem

>>60352791
Then they were just unpatched. MS released a patch 2 months ago. Lazy IT staff.

>>60355317
Is there a patch for Windows 7? I haven't updated in years for fear of telemetry.

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>>60352509
Prepare your anus winfags

>>60355038
Nothing ubugu ever fucking works. In 2010 it wasn't the case, but nowadays it's mind numbing how broken it is. Just run gentoo GNU.

>>60355629
>needing to be spoonfed this much
i hope you get hit by it, dumb fuck

>>60354307
If it crashed the economy, it would be a good time to establish a National Socialist regime in America and the West.

You know what MS released a patch for this back in March, right ?

People who refused/ or couldn't update are the ones being affected.

>>60355629
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx#ID0EHB
>Published: March 14, 2017

>>60352509
One would think that at least critical infrastructure is not running over Windows, but idiots happen...

No lol, people does not even know there's an alternative. They will blame it on themselves for not updating windows.

>>60355078
what's wrong with you mint is awful

>>60358827
its not. it's the best

Truth is Windows could have a successful boot rate of 50% for every user and people would use it because most people are dumb.

>>60352509
its not changing shit

Why would anything change?

>>60353408
Somebody clicked on bigblackcocks.mp3.exe and it spread on their internet network, presumably.

>>60355850
Yes like institutional customers and those left in the dust when MS stopped patching their systems.

Kek.

Microsoft actually spends a ton of effort in securing their OS.
If Microsoft is gone and something else becomes the popular target used by millions of clueless normies it's going to be just as fucked.

If you think OS X or Linux never have RCEs, you're fucking retarded.
But at least Linux gets updating right.

>>60359769
you're an idiot, this shit only ever happens to windows

>>60354097
I work in a hospital. I would like to hope we have an off-site server system that backs up critical data. But our main server is right around the corner of my office. I can confirm that if our IT team can't so much as help me fix my connection to the companies email servers, they sure as hell can't help a facility wide ransomware issue. The staff here is trained solely on machines and electronics.

If my hospital were hit my this, people WILL die. This hospital would essentially go into lock down and all staff would likely get mandated to come in and help like OP's post. I'm just security here. Is just stand by and laugh.

T. hospital running Windows 7 and XP.

>>60359991
>90% market share
>wonder why it gets targeted more than other operating systems

hmmm

>>60360000
Kiss those patients goodbye anon, like most hospitals you probably have glorified on-site wincuck IT "pros" at best.

In the old days when a hospital would have a crusty nerdy unix admin this would not have happened, and if by some miracle it did he'd fix it right up.

>>60359991
Because Windows is what most normies use, makes updating as annoying as possible, and relies heavily on third party software.

>>60360030
are you implying that the architectural differences and hordes of street shitters pooing out code at MS account for nothing?

non-arguments like yours have been forgiven too long, you're a cuckold

>>60359991
because no one bothers with linux or osx genius
you actually think linux is secure? lmao

>>60360041
we tried to warn wincucks

now it's time to gloat and say, told ya so

>>60360041
>what most normies use
>normies
if you use this word, you are a "normie," dumb normalfaggot.

>>60360040
I can confirm this. I am security here but I'm a half-wit Linux user. I went to an first interview with them and decided half way through that there was no way in hell I was going to accept the job offer. I'd rather just stay in security and fight BH patients. More exciting.

>>60358827
t. windows shill

mint's one of the easiest distros for normies to get into

>>60359991
recent RCE in the Linux kernel
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10229

Point is, don't be retard. Update often, backup your shit, no matter what OS you use.

>>60360110
ubuntu is easy for normies to get into as well, it also has the benefit of not being a steaming pile of shit

>>60360091
What a cute attempt to fit in.

>>60360139
mint's got better support out of the box because they're willing to use proprietary software for compatibility.

feel free to stop being a dumbfuck at any time, windows shill

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>>60360142
kill yourself.

>>60360173
1. I use arch and regularly shit on windows as well
2. Ubuntu is willing to use proprietary software as well
3. Mint is shit
feel free to stop being salty at any time

Sperm-whores on suicide watch.

Linux could use more developers but I don't want it to be mainstream.
I like being part of the sekrit klub

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>>60352509
The only reason Linux wasn't targeted is because creating ransomware for Linux is a waste of time and you wouldn't make any profit from the type of people that use it.

>>60352509
winfags are homosexual

How do you even get this?