Windows: Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (Critical! Patch Now!)

Microsoft Technet ^ | May 14, 2019 | Microsoft Security Response Center Team

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Not a chance. I dont windows update anything and refuse to buy into the mass hysteria. My computers run just fine with win 7 , bitchin vpn and security and good old fashion stay away from shitty websites I dont know.

In fact I have special software to block microsoft from even knowing I am running win 7. Nope let the chumps update themselves into ruining the only microsoft product worth having. Windows 10 can go yo hell. It sucks.

[dayglored]

> Those were the settings on my Win7 laptop. Is it still vulnerable?

Well, without the update the software is still the vulnerable version, -BUT- you have it disabled, so it should be okay.

[dayglored]

> And shame on those people using default 3389 with a port open on their router.

You mean like Hillary? (That was how her Windows private email server was configured. Seriously, look it up...)

[Auntie Mame]

I agree. I do not do updates, at all. I’ve turned off remote desktop.

[Carriage Hill]

No matter which one I download, Win-7 Pro x64 says “Windows can not open thi sfile”.

What should I do.

I have auto-update ON; am I covered?

[GOPJ]

bump to the top

[musicman]

BFLR

[vetvetdoug]

FWIW someone accessed my computer last week and took it over. I have a PC in a location where no one else can use it and they got in, got my passwords and had a buying spree at Amazon. My computer was just sitting on and all of a sudden the mouse indicator began to move and use the computer. That was when I first saw the problem. I've closed all the accounts I could, cancelled my CC and accounts that had passwords on the PC, spent hours with Amazon and Mastercard getting this resolved. I have no idea how they got through to me.

[miliantnutcase]

I believe it

[dayglored]

> My computer was just sitting on and all of a sudden the mouse indicator began to move and use the computer.

That sounds like a case of remote desktop control via a program installed on your computer, such as "GoToMyPC", "TeamView", "Skype", "Hangouts", or similar (there are a bunch of them, some commercial, some freeware). Could even be a remote tech-support thing from some time in the past when you got support from a manufacturer or dealer.

I suggest you crawl through the machine's "Program Files" folders, looking for programs that allow communication between you and someone outside, that include "sharing" a desktop.

If there's nothing like that, you probably got infected with something that's accomplishing that remote control with a trojan of some sort. Get your anti-malware software in gear and scan...

[matthew fuller]

ME too!

[RebelTex]

What about Vista?

[mad_as_he$$]

It still sucks!

[dayglored]

> What about Vista?

Microsoft stopped selling Vista in 2010, mainstream support ended in April 2012, and Microsoft dropped all support entirely in April 2017, over two years ago. The remaining active user base of Vista is so small -- less than half-a-percent of all Windows users -- that Microsoft simply doesn't care about them and wants them to go away. Vista users should have long since upgraded to Windows 7 or later.

It's dead, Jim.

[ducttape45]

I downloaded the patches for XP and 7, and will keep them for future installs if needed. I even shared the article with a co-worker.

I also turned off the Remote Service.