[Utilizer]

Historical and still dangersous...

[grey_whiskers]

Historical and still dangersous...

Guys, some of you tangle with windows users, and some of you (I think) have worked on government contracts. There are all kinds of govt. computers which rely on old software due to budget constraints.

I thought I read once that our Aegis cruisers were running on Windows ME. Even if it was entirely a joke, such a thing is too horrible to contemplate.

[This_far]

I miss DOS

[dayglored]

I’m going to link to this thread from the one I posted earlier today on the Patch Tuesday updates, since one of those updates fixes this bug.

[relictele]

Problem is, even manual/custom updates will attempt to download the dreaded Windows 10 nagware.

MS really needs to stop letting the marketing dept run the security dept.

[ConservativeMind]

You can stop it by turning off NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

I don't think there is any need for any form of NetBIOS to be connected to your network adapter settings, any more.

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-—threats/windows-badtunnel-attack-hijacks-network-traffic/d/d-id/1325875

[ronnietherocket3]

Every version of the Microsoft operating system going back to Windows 95 is affected

Phew, my Windows 2.1 is fine.

[catnipman]

here’s the correct link:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/06/14/microsoft-badtunnel-big-brother-windows-vulnerability/#bcd0b905c642

[Utilizer]

Somehow, the link I originally posted for this thread no longer points to the correct article, I am not certain why.

Please change the pointers in the beginning of the thread to point to where the article is currently:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/06/14/microsoft-badtunnel-big-brother-windows-vulnerability/#43c0c44f5c64

Thanks in advance.

[Organic Panic]

[Faith65]

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