Is Windows dead?

>>60357255
>Is Windows dead?

Nope, they will blame the users for not updating to Windows 10.

>>60357277
Windows 7 got the patch too.

>>60357255
Shouldve gotten Windows 10.
Why didn't you listen?

How many people will have to die before its the year of linux?

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>>60357277
>>60357304
Windows 10 is affected too. Stay safe anons, use Common Sense 2018, don't click on sketchy .exe's, etc.

>>60357255
doubtful, but im sure there will be a huge increase in sales when every company that refused to upgrade their 2003 XP computer systems rush to protect their monies from russian haxxors

>>60357255
Wait... This infects people who haven't installed flash from a movie streaming site? Thought this was only messing with normies who messed up. Huh.

It was patched months ago. The problem is incompetent admins not bothering to update their systems.
You're probably one of the same retards who were shitting on ms for forcing security updates in win 10 and disabling them on 7 to avoid the telemetry boogeyman.

>>60357255
Nice try. Rest of the world is blaming the American government.

>>60357312
All of them.

>>60357255
>The worst ransomware in history is due to Microsoft's incompetence.
The vulnerability was patched in March.

>>60357358
why? It's their fault for using Windows.

It was literally patched two MONTHS ago.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

People are retards for not updating. They deserved it.

>>60357312

95 percent of them

>>60357336
I don't care as much about them forcing updates as I do about them forcing them during normal use hours. And the telemetry is too damn much.

>all versions got a pathc to stop this
>microaoft did literally everything within their power to keep it from happening
>because of misplaced update paranoia it happened anyway

>Linux already at 2% marketshare
>doubled the marketshare since Snowden
>this happens

Yes. Yessssssssssssss. Now please fucking fund the fucking transition to Wayland so we can get rid of X insecurities.

>>60357318

Windows 10 updates automatically so most end users are safe.

>>60357396
other anons were saying that it was the most recent windows update that was compromised. idk I don't use W10, regardless stay safe

>>60357255
Microsoft will do the Windows 10 Free Upgrade again across the world.

>>60357255
call me when linux gets anything above 4 byte data alignment, until then, windows is king

Last update i got was the 10/05 on Win10

>>60357255
How do you get this ransomware? My devices are all safe so far.

>>60357381
No, Microsoft could go Google style with Android, and do security patches independent of the rest. Don't need to do all that unnecessary garbage to patch holes. Don't want candy crush, Facebook or any of that, just patch flaws.

>>60357421
>windows
>king
>"You need to restart your computer to apply this settings change. Restarting..."
>"Program successfully installed. You need to restart your computer to complete the installation. Restarting..."
>forced restart to apply updates
>can't use your computer while installing updates; have to sit there and stare at the screen as it installs them
>"we couldn't complete the updates, undoing changes..."
>"restarting..."
>can't refuse specific features in an update
>can't refuse updates at all, unless you disable them completely, but...
>have to disable critical security updates just to make the system usable
>but it will only be usable for a week because Windows has more holes than swiss cheese
>still need an anti-virus
>still need to defrag occasionally
>still need to reinstall Windows regularly due to windows rot (this is arguable, some people say that you won't get windows rot if you use you take precautions, but no such measure are required on other operating systems)
>BSOD- It is NEVER acceptable to let the entire operating system crash when a single application causes a problem, yet Windows allows it.
>can't change the Desktop UI without some broken hacky shit
>can't customize anything outside of what Microsoft "allows"; it's Microsoft's computer for as long as Windows is installed on it
>feature creep
>ads in file manager
>ads in settings UI
>ads in start menu
>Registry (LOL)
>NTFS (LOL)

call me when Windows stops being third-world pajeet garbage

>>60357456
>id rather have ransom ware than a few apps ill never look at

This is what you are saying

>>60357277
>Nope, they will blame the users for not updating to Windows 10.
Windows 10 is also affected.

>>60357318
>sketchy .exe's, etc.
You can get it from a link.

>>60357447
You don't really do anything. It's a smb flaw. If you have UPnP enabled, it could go through your router automatically without you installing anything. If it's the flaw I think it is.

>>60357502
well over half that shit doesnt apply nemore dough

>>60357516
>Windows 10 is also affected.

Windows 10 was patched like a month ago.

Windows 10 runs updates automatically. You retards cried why, now you know.

>>60357516
>link
I believe that was covered in my "etc."

>>60357531
literally all of it is still applicable, and most of it is stuff that just started with Windows 10.

>>60357502
>ads
When was this a thing? I never got an ad since I installed it.

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>>60357255
Yes

>>60357512
No. What I'm saying is, people would be less reluctant if Microsoft didn't do nonsense like that. I have updates on, and have recently updated. I regedited or something to block candy crush, and Facebook. But not wanting an extra source of telemetry is a legit concern.

A normie won't regedit.

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>>60357336

Your payment shall arrive momentarily.

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>>60357564

>>60357543
All windows versions where patched like a month ago

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>>60357502
>meanwhile his linux machine takes twice as long to fetch a number from memory

>>60357587
>regedited or something to block candy crush, and Facebook
You really only needed to just uninstall them.

>>60357333
No. Anyone with smb1 listening on 445 without a patch is vulnerable

>>60357610
what you talking about fag

my machine is guaranteed faster than your winshit device. Boot up in less than 10 seconds and program launch time is instantaneous. Go on, pretend like your computer does that. :^)

>>60357610
>windows
>faster than anything
>windows
>fast
neck yourself

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>>60357598
Strange. I don't even have OneDrive in my file explorer.

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>>60357564
>>60357675
you closed it, fag

>>60357675
Ltsb?

>>60357415
Why are you listening to anons? A quick search would show you otherwise. Actually security researchers and AV companies, and MS themselves have all said this was patched back in March, and that includes as far back as Windows 7.

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>>60357652
>>60357669
I thought I was on /g/ but I must have somehow stumbled upon reddit

how do you view windows security updates installed?

>>60357696
>why are you listening to anons
because this doesn't actually affect me

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>>60357610
WTF are you smoking, Poojeet? Windows is slower than Linux. Microsoft kernel dev said so.

Windows is now basically a gaming OS.

>>60357456
>and do security patches independent of the rest
What? Are you fucking retarded? That's exactly how Windows security patches have worked for more than a decade.

Seriously, are you retarded?

>>60357692
Nope, using Pro.

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>>60357610
So, Windows takes 3 times as long to move from point a to b in microwave time

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>>60357715
>winfags don't know how to view installed updates
You can't make this shit up

I'm safe because I'm a goof user who updates regularly! Thank you Microsoft for having my back!

>>60357610
hahaha what the fuck you literally just made that up

quality shitpost

>>60357675
!COMPROMISED!

>>60357763
have never needed to do it, I should be fairly up to date as of, 20 days ago, but I want to be sure I have the patch that closes that.

>>60357255
>patch one vulnerability
>Another vulnerability opens up

>>60357789
google it fag. or are winbabbies too dumb for that as well?

>>60357789
>have never needed to do it
This mentality is why this shit is happening.

>>60357823
google isn't telling me shit

>>60357813
Yes this is how software works good observation

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>>60357652
>>60357669
>>60357729
>>60357755
>>60357774
>what is data alignment
>what is struct packing
literal tech illiterates, get off my board

>>60357830
no, windows constantly pushing a feature update that fucks the users is what allows this to happen, nothing more nothing less.

>>60357848
>bullshit
>bullshit
>bullshit
consider suicide, Poojeet.

>>60357848
>pajeet still making shit up
those are real terms, that you obviously don't even understand. Windows is slow. Literal pajeet shit. I bet you've probably never even seen a fast system, so you think yours is fast.

>>60357850
They only do those twice a year. If it fucks things up, do a repair install.

>>60357841
Thank you for you compliment :-) Is this done intentionally?

>>60357907
I refuse to trust windows to not fuck with what I have, If I have to install a fresh boot because windows fucked up, I buy a new drive and install it on it, I lose no prior data, but I'm further pissed that I had to spend money to fix something they broke.

>>60357624
>Not getting his point cause you're an autist

No, people are too apathetic and don't give a shit.

>>60357393

My next computer is going to be solely linux. Microshit is making the moves like it wants to go for a massive power grab on vidyagames and that's the only thing it has over using something like loonix

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>>60357647
Can anyone give me a quick rundown on this ?

>>60358018
>power grab on vidyagames
please no. Gaming on Windows is already garbage. Consoles just work without an intrusive OS getting in the way. Please don't touch consoles

>another overhyped skiddie virus that only infects outdated systems
>IS THIS THE END?!?!????!?
how new are you

>>60358126
>outdated systems
>how new are you
Clearly not new enough

>>60358078
if you have unpatched windows, you're fucked. also, who knows how many other zero-days will leak from Wikileaks.

just fucking get rid of Winshit.

How do I update Windows 7 without getting telemetry? I haven't updated in over a year.

>>60358390
You don't.

>>60358018
>My next computer is going to be solely linux.

It's silly to choose since all OS are free to torrent and you can run any or many in VMs then restore from a snapshot if wanted.

I don't get this "choose" shit. I just add VMs. I use a Linux host of course.

>>60357255
>microsoft incompetency
More like NSA incompetency.
Literally was patched 2 months ago.

>>60357374
Because this was caused by the NSA.

>>60357729
The article in question doesn't suggest what the shitty clickbait says.

>>60358457
>More like NSA incompetency.
Reall? NSA develops Windows? Coulda fooled me!

>>60358519
It's slower, fucking deal with it Poojeet.

Daily reminder that if this vulnerability existed in Linux, Torvalds et al. would try to hide it and treat it as a "normal bug"

>still running Win98SE
>no malware ever

only idiots use windows these days...

two choices:

>update to avoid exploits, but the OS sends all your data to the nsa anyway, plus you get ads
>don't update and be open to exploits

now you know why they call it cuckware

>>60357381
>because of misplaced update paranoia it happened anyway

The update paranoia is in no way misplaced thanks to Microsoft's own behavior. Microsoft did this to themselves.

>>60358601
No.

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>neets actually believe the most used OS by a huge margin is going anywhere

>>60357255
No

>>60358638
>people don't update their machines
>microsoft gets the blame for them
>well, we will change the rules to update more frequently
>still gets the blame anyways
Microsoft will get blamed for everything they do anyways.

>>60357684
That's bloatware
Have you ever used android with google playstore?

>>60358672
>implying more frequent updates is the problem
>not MS' own adware/spyware

>>60358719
In fact is for the constat updating. That's where the whinning is found in the normies.
>t. basement dweller

>>60357737
Literally this.

I mean... it's still garbage, but half the problems people have with Windows 10 are solved by using a paid version either by buying it, getting your hands on a VL, or using a patcher.

Why are people using the literally ad supported version of windows and then complaining when they see ads?

>>60358755
Normies are only pissy because it shuts their shit down without saving anything. If it wasn't such a cunt about how it applies the updates and just did them on user-initiated shutdown or reboot like Win7 does they wouldn't give a fuck.

>>60358607
This.
You should use OpenBSD OP.

>>60358652
Nah, the entire business world will instantly switch to linux and all their proprietary software will be replaced by open source

>>60357255
>Depending on cops to save you
Toppest kek
They're not actually obligated to protect you at all. They can stand off to the side and watch you get disembowled by a mad man and not suffer any consequences for their inaction

>>60358845
only in your stallman fanfics

>>60358845
>he seriously believes that bussiness will pay for a expensive migration that will revert within months

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>>60358889
Do you retards not get sarcasm, or am I the retard?

>>60359017
>sarcasm in written text
>in a board that's a giant circlejerk about linux
k.

>>60357255
This isn't even the first time Windows has been by this sort of virus.

Thinking it's going to somehow kill Windows is wishful thinking.

>>60359124
>This isn't even the first time Windows has been by this sort of virus.
Nothing of this scale. And nothing even close to damage that virus will exact. We're talking billions of dollars and many lives lost. This will even prompt lawsuits.

>>60357516
Microsoft would still tell users to switch to it

>>60359017
>or am I the retard?

That one.

Okay can I run Ubuntu from a usb drive?
I can open HDDs that don't have the windows partition on linux right?It won't fuck up them right?

>>60359181
Are you being retarded on purpose or are you really this impressionable?
This virus affected just a few thousand computers and the ransom addresses got 10k dollars so far, it's just the media overhyping it mostly.

>>60359249
>This virus affected just a few thousand computers and the ransom addresses got 10k dollars so far, it's just the media overhyping it mostly.
100k+ is still locked. You're a fucking idiot if you think this is nothing.

I dont like updating my W7, last time i did was last year.

Which date do i have to be up to date to be safe?

>>60359261
Yeah it's a big deal but I predict a few hundred thousand dollars in damage at best, there will probably be a few deaths due to missed surgeries and such but it will be fixed by tomorrow when the IT guys wake up and revert to the latest backup.

The virus is already dead by the way, someone triggered its killswitch.

Stop trying to make this a bigger deal than it really is just because you want windows to die.

>>60359286
Just update to the latest and be done with it

>>60359181
>Nothing of this scale
I don't think you quite remember how bad shit was. I remember getting infected DURING INSTALLATION.

>>60357255
>Is Windows dead?
Yes

>>60359307
>The virus is already dead by the way, someone triggered its killswitch.
wow yeah no chance someone will just fucking replicate it in an hour or less
no sir

The only reason I disabled updates several months ago was because I didn't want to be forced to """"upgrade"""" to Windows 10 (currently on 8.1).

What exact updates are the ones that I need to avoid in order to not deal with the """"upgrade""""? Or better yet, is it enough to just manually download the monthly security update from the online catalogue?

charturbatetokenhack100percentworkingnosurveys.exe

>>60359479
The exploit this malware uses has been fixed months ago, you know. Only outdated systems got affected. And I'm sure the admins learned their lesson and will let the systems update now.
Literally how new are you? Are you some /pol/fag looking for le next ebin happening?
This is nothing and you're probably too young to remember the wild west days when malware was every fucking where and major outbreaks happened all the time. The only difference now is that admins got too complacent and people aren't used to shit breaking all the time.

>>60357255
Microsoft had it patched since March. I'd be more pissed off at the NSA for sitting on this exploit and letting it get out into the wild.

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>>60359580
what the fuck are you talking about
>The exploit this malware uses has been fixed months ago
Yet people are still getting hit because they don't update.
>Literally how new are you? Are you some /pol/fag looking for le next ebin happening?

>>60357255
Im out of the loop, what is going on?

>>60359651
And they will update now, is that so hard to understand?

>>60359684
Of course, that is unless they haven't been hit or notified and are going to get hit later.
I never stated that this was some kind of black plague that was going to sweep the lands of windows and crypt everyone's belongings.

Blame the fucking NSA. Microsoft had a patch out almost as soon as it was a known vulnerability. Blame the management and Sysadmins who didn't apply security patching.

Blame your nigger ass for not using Linux after all these years of more and more evidence that you really, really fucking should.

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>>60359712
>update the computer
>get hacked because update introduced a vulnerability
>don't update the computer
>get hacked because old vulnerability

>>60359712
But I can't play shootan games on linux

>>60358457
bump

>>60358586
your actually autistic right?

I'm on windows 8.1 right now, should I update?

>>60359205
Right.

>>60359761
Wrong.

>>60359761
Idk man I've been getting my ass kicked on war thunder all day

no, in a week or two engadget and all the other cool tech blogs will write about how this would never happen with windows 10s muh sand box blah blah only properly certified code. Months from now windows 10s is the best selling version of windows since 98 when everyone upgraded just to be y2k compliant.

>>60359846
Educate me on getting Rising Storm to run on linux then please

>>60359995
install WINE

>>60359673
>Im out of the loop, what is going on?
Oh nothing... just an APOCALYPSE.

>>60357610
>>60357848

Using the same character in images is worse than being a tripfag imo

>>60359995
GPU passthrough

>>60357255
>is due to Microsoft's incompetence

It's due to NSA meddling and people not updating their windows.

>>60360271
And people don't update windows because of garbage like force updating people to windows 10.

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>>60357255
>it's Microsoft's fault people don't install security updates

>>60360349

>>60360347

>>60357336
>incompetent admins not bothering to update their systems

Have you ever been the admin for 10,000+ machines? automating updates for all of those machines is a lot harder than you would think.

>>60357598
>1000GB
>1TB

>>60360469
Making sure the systems are safe is your job, how fucking incompetent do you have to be to call your job "too hard"?

>>60360489
That's correct

>>60360497
t. person with no security or administration background

>>60360508
t. person who let an entire system get infected because he was too lazy to enable automatic updates
You're lucky normies don't even realize it's your fault, someone this incompetent would get instantly fired in any other kind of job.

>>60360051
enjoy 10% performance and random crashes lamo

>>60360149
do this one yeah

>>60357255

No, freetard.

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>>60357277

fpbp

>>60360553
>he thinks enabling automatic updates is enough to guarantee machines will be updated

Those types of people are EXACTLY the admins who end up dealing with this shit.

>>60360638
Maybe you should do your job and make sure systems are being updated...?
What are you even doing being in charge of a system if you can't run it properly?

>>60357336
>The problem is incompetent admins not bothering to update their systems.

>Using windows
>caring about security

the moment they decided to not leave windows, they already said spit in the face of security, anything else they do will not tell they are stupider, they already reached this point

>>60358586
>NSA develops Windows?
Learn how the world works

>>60360508
>tfw full blown Spacewalk setup and shit jus werks

maybe you winpleb shitmins should kill yourselfs

>>60359712
>Blame your nigger ass for not using Linux

>linux

Its not linux, its windows being shit.

Using an analogy, its the fighter (windows) that is ultra shitty, not the wizard (linux kernel os) that is so powerfull. Thats why the wizard is way better than the fighter because the fighter is ultra mega super shit.

Said that, bsd is ok, linux is ok and some others too you dont need to specifically go to linux, leaving windows is the important bit here

>>60360553
It's kind of funny how your post confirms that he was right. You have no actual knowledge of what you're saying and are just saying shit because it sounds logical.

>>60360801
>admins will finally get off their asses and update the machines now that shit actually went down
>IT'S TOO HARD xddd SO WHAT IF IT'S MY ONLY JOB

>>60358126
> outdated systems
> everything before March 2017 is outdated

>>60357255
>is due to Microsoft's incompetence
Yeah fuck microsoft for not going to every computer that has windows and updating it for the owner. Fuck the US government and fuck you too, shit for brains

>>60359550
Do those things actually work?
I mean no one would download them if they didn't, right?

>>60357255
>The worst ransomware in history is due to Microsoft's incompetence.
>Idiots disabled UAC
>get infected
>bbbut its MS fawlt!

lol.

>>60360884
Why is SMBv1 still enabled in Vista and above? They could prevent this.

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>>60357684
>news is ads
why not point out the weather too? Thats an ad for weather appropriate clothing.

>>60357564
Don't have any ads on windows 10 pro, I did a block some services with regedit and DWS though and run it in a VM for safe measure. Hell even got the w7 key I upgraded from eons ago for free off dream-spark. Only use it for videogames and applications that only run on windows reliably.

>>60360098
isn't avatar fagging against the rules?

>>60361446
Us pro users are the master race

>>60360932
Windows XP doesn't have UAC.

As for why they stayed on XP after all this time, very likely a miscalculation of the risks involved in not updating.

>>60357255

The CIA has a hand in this also. Windows put updates out like a month a go to stop this. If the worm penetrates your network walla nd gets to your server you can update cause of whatever shit you are running on them kiss your ass goodbye.

Read only backup onto a drive that unplugs right now.

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I just used the windows update cleanup option with the clean up tool last night. That didn't get rid of the vulnerability patch right?

>vulnerability was patched in march
>tried to make updates mandatory and everyone resisted because paranoid delusional retards
>this is somehow microsofts fault

There is alot wrong with microsoft but in this case they did all they could

>>60362254
You have to realize that even if Microsoft fixed it you still have to download it
>muh spywarezzz botnett" t. /g/

>>60357544
yeah but this is 2017 not 2007. sergey yougslavhhf and his team of hackers have finally figured out that people don't click links like 13427891.virus.com anymore, there are many ways that one can make a link, html embedded or not, seem fine unless you are paying super close attention 24/7.

as an aside, I'm surprised this thing isn't spreading faster. if this thing is really as viral as people are saying (clicking a link, opening an email) then I'm surprised hackers aren't already buying up shitty popup-ad traffic from 3rd party DSPs like PopAds and just spreading it like that.

>>60362304
I covered that already when i said that they tried to make updatez mandatory and everyone resisted because of some silly fear

>>60362304
>fixed in march
>didn't update for 2 months

>>60358304
Is this recent? I haven't turned on my windows at work since Wednesday but keep my important shit on a 2nd drive.

Would just like to know before I boot into it if I have time to update or need to pull my 2nd drive before booting.

>>60362304
>>60362325
t. shills

>>60357502
>never got ads, just said no to them during installation
>turned off cortana
>customize UI with visual styles, aeroglass etc, works perfectly and never have to fix things/reinstall. can also change themes without messing it up and it persists through major updates without breaking
>literally hundreds of windows tweak applications out there to change ui functionality, ultimate windows tweaker is my fav
>got some BSODs due to cpu overheating when i first built the system, just replaced the fans and the thermal paste and it never gets them any more
>windows has automatically defragged itself during quiet periods for years, never noticed, i have an SSD for the OS anyway
>no antivirus, no infections since i built it, windows defender does the job fine
>updates set to download but prompt to install, i just tell it later and it installs on shutdown like it has since the fucking 90s
>restarting the pc takes about 10 seconds due to SSD and fast boot, it's hardly a big deal
inb4 deposited into my account, i'm just stating the facts, everything you posted is a non-issue.

>>60362391
>shill for literally telling you why updates are important and not always a waste of time

Id just as soon you use linux or mac but if you insist on windows then its best to keep it up to date

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>Windows 7 SP1 no updates
>Disabled all the shitty ports aeons ago
>Disabled all the bloat services since installation 2 years ago including Windows Defender
>Fresh and clean
>Free of Windows 10 bullshit on top of that
Feels great

>>60357396
Except enterprise (optionally). Also seeding updates to other faggot is a huge bullshit, so never will use the cuck versions.

>>60362443
Same here.

>>60357610
>>60357848
>i free to bullshit and don't prove my point
Time to get back to class.

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I think the worst thing to come out of this is the fact that shitty """"""""""tech"""""""""" companies like Office Depot will use this to scam end users into buying antivirus software and shitty, overpriced computer repairs.

I work at Office Depot and I'm going to tell my managers about this tomorrow and use it to sell actual software feces (McAfee) to customers. I'm a freetard with a job and this makes it hard for me to sleep at night, but I need the money.

May God forgive me for what I am about to do.

>>60359054
>>60359194

>the entire business world
>instantly
>all their proprietary software

No, that was pretty obviously sarcasm. Note the use of the word "nah" and the blithe way of saying a massive undertaking will be accomplished quickly and easily.

Here's how it would have been written if it had been legit, or able to be taken as legit by anyone with half a functioning brain:

>Nope, this will mark the beginning of a large shift in the business world towards Linux and proprietary software.

>>60361474
yes, but we have no mods

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>>60357255

:(

>>60362629
But vista was about 20 timss as unstable as xp sp3

>>60362629
I have thrown out 2 XP disc. Didn't regret it.

>>60362629
I miss XP. If not for needing 64 bit I'd still be running it instead of 7.

>>60362804
I too miss Blaster, Sasser, Mydoom, Netsky, Nimda, Code Red and so fucking on.

Fun times. Shame you weren't actually there.

>>60362538
you idiot, you're basically a merchant if you work retail, your job is to sell sell sell, don't want to be a merchant, don't work retail
upsale that shit

>>60362538
Will it work though, even if there are better ways that don't involve giving you money? Or is your paid antivirus just snake oil in this circumstance?

>>60362882
scheming merchant

>>60357255
it's not window's fault.

all software has security bugs. windows, due to it's marketshare is worth investment, therefore it's the one that is targeted the most.

whatever OS trades places with windows will be targeted by shit that is just as nasty (and i'll have to move to another lowkey os)

>>60357277
I had blame NSA for this

> reeeeeeeeee ms why is this happening
> Did you install the latest Windows Updates?
> no i disabled them months ago because you're spying on me reeeeeeeeee
> Well we pushed a patch out at least a month ago for this exact problem
> not my problem reeeeeeeee

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>>60357502
Windows 7 master race
everything is just so comfy and smug

I'm about to download the latest windows, should I go enterprise or pro?

>>60362910
It's snake oil. Doesn't work in normal circumstances.

>>60357255
Wincuck is FINISHED AND BANKRUPT

>>60362882
I don't mind being a merchant if I'm supplying a product that isn't actually a shit stain.

But when I'm forced to sell the software equivalent of putting a piece of bologna into your CD tray and spinninf it.

>>60358078
To enable or disable SMBv1 on the SMB server, configure the following registry key:
Registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\ParametersRegistry entry: SMB1
REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled
REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled
Default: 1 = Enabled

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2696547/how-to-enable-and-disable-smbv1,-smbv2,-and-smbv3-in-windows-vista,-windows-server-2008,-windows-7,-windows-server-2008-r2,-windows-8,-and-windows-server-2012

>>60366497
Do I need to disable the others?

I've heard comments and other reports stating SMBv1 and SMBv2 also needing to be disabled.

>>60357255
No but it will kill it's users even more.
This is gonna make them add more shit beneath the hood that normies don't give a shit about to "protect" the user.

>>60366539
Disable them all, use Services for NFS.

>>60362318
The killswitch was activated. It no longer affects anyone.

>>60362877
0.02 rupees were deposit in account, kindly do the needful pajeet!!!

>>60364768
>everything is just so comfy and smug
Win7 is dead. Hope you enjoy ancient CPUs and no security updates.

NHS should sue NSA for billions tbqh

>>60357375
>Two months ago
It was out in the wild for years and the NSA knew and never told anyone

>>60367866
I don't have an official Win7 and I can still get all security updates. Why is that?

>>60357255
Idiots who haven't updated since March will bitch but Microsoft silent patched this months ago. So if you have the update you're fine. It went back to Vista OS so no excuse.

>>60368216
>autoupdates are constantly broken for 90%+ of people
>literally impossible to disable autoupdates in win10
>everyone still getting infected
>ITS DA UZER FALT
>>>/india/

>>60367909
>The Nation of Great Britain, Wale and North Ireland should sue The United States of America because their public health service, The NHS, didn't install an update on their critical machines for 2 months.
uwotm8

>>60368371
>autoupdates are constantly broken for 90%+ of people
Who are these people?

>>60368472
Typically people who have work-provided windows 10 devices. Additionally, normalfags who don't mess with their home windows 10 installs.

>>60368511
I've never seen a Win10 install broken from updates though...

>>60357255
are you fuckin stupid or what
Microsoft patched this well before the spread of this virus
users are too stupid to update their software

>>60368591
There were at least 2 updates that bricked shit already. But it's WINDOWS UPDATES that breaks (by updates), not WINDOWS that breaks by updates (though it does, such as fucked up dpi scaling and reduced system stability)

>>60360469
It's not that hard unless people work day and night and the whole IT setup is shit.
Besides, you don't do automatic updates in a setup like that, you push updates through active directory or whatever that shit is called.

This is 100% the fault of shitty admins. Waiting two weeks before mass deployment might be reasonable, but two months is retarded.

>>60368629
I haven't seen either of those.
Admittedly we've set to defer upgrades, but it still delivers security updates almost right away (right away to our WSUS server, then overnight to client pcs)

>>60368750
Even M$ doesn't push updates through AD. They use a tool to _suggest_ updates and windows updates in a combination.

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>Microsoft sends out a Windows XP patch to block new ransomware

http://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-sends-out-a-windows-xp-patch-to-block-new-ransomware

Freetards on suicide watch! Suck this!

>>60357318
>Windows 10 is affected too
No it isn't. The malware specifically avoids Windows 10 when spreading, in fact.

>>60357255
It's due user incompetence though.

>>60357255
It's not Microsoft's overall fault but your elite bigbrother overlords with their intelligence grid meme that the NSA is part of.

>>60357502
Actually I'm quite impressed with the amount of metadata going in and out of Windows Operating Systems. Nothing can even compare. Even if a system that is disconnected to the WAN/Internet windows got it covered with System Volume Information (tm). It's really impressive IMO. They have the most sophisticated technology to spy on billions of people. Ads are just the 'creamy' distraction at the top to make you think Microsoft is going broke.

>>60362492
name someone using the fucking enterprise versions
>all the hackers
that's on you, retards

>>60368945
Thank you for your insight pajeet.

>>60362492
>seeding updates

Only on LAN, and easily disabled.

>>60369027
enterprise have less features than ultimate.

hackers use server editions or windows 6 longhorn.

>>60358631
>the OS sends all your data to the nsa anyway, plus you get ads
Also you probably still have a chance that your OS is just broken completely by an update.

>>60357255
technical question...

does this ransomware encrypt any particular or specific directories?

i use separate drives for my data but just how far will the virus go?

>>60369291
It probably has a list of stuff to not encrypt and just goes apeshit on the rest.

>>60357294
What? when?
What's the name of the update?
I can't believe Microsoft is this stupid.

>>60357255
nope.

normal people don't use their computers to do those things

also, windows still provides great functionality for normies who use their computers to browse the internet, play games on steam, and to file their taxes

>>60369950
Why is MS Stupid?
They patched this in March... for all (then) supported OSes. (Vista was still under support then)

XP (and out of support product) got a patch today too (but only today, not in march, except for the gov/corp customers paying for XP support, who got it in march)

>>60370635
>normal people don't use their computers to do those things
No, but they do use their work computers for it, which apparently if your an NHS employee/doctor/nurse/etc that means your PC which may be critical to lives ov your patients, is suddenly inaccessible or that a PC controlling an CT-Scanner might suddenly be unavailable, preventing use of that crucial diagnostic test.

If some doofus setup a phone system on Windows, it could prevent employees being able to call out in an emergency (Nortel phone systems ran on Windows - I'm glad they're out of business, but many people might still be using old nortel hardware...)

>>60357277
Useless admins, not doign updates release from the 14th of March, big fat companies using proprietary software that still needs windows XP to run!

Blame OS, not incompetence! It was the same with linux and the SSL bug last year!

Idiots do not learn, so well played to teh peoipel who fucked them over.

>>60371825
Please show me where all the FOSS X-ray software is anon...

>>60358390
You don't, Update their spyware and be part of their botnet or be vulnerable to exploits like this. You don't have full agency when using Windows, Anon. You just spread your ass cheeks and just take it

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>>60357598
>1TB
>1000GB

>>60362183
it will only clean obsolete updates.

>>60371994
Telemetry can be bypassed thorugh your hosts files! all teh telemetry servers are known public IPs, find them, block them

Get a seperate section for the telemetry servers needed for the windows updates, comment them out of the hosts files once you want to update and then enble them again.

My hosts files is approximatelly 400 lines now, but I have Windows10, latest builds and not a single piece of info goes baclk to Micorsoft. There are also 3rd party software which do a similar job.

A little bit of research and you will find all the info you need. Do not be a pleb