Posted on 05/20/2019 5:30:49 PM PDT by dayglored
I won't call you paranoid. I'll call you cautious.
Unless there's good reason to enable an external access service (RDP or any other), leave 'em off!
Well, thanks for the heads up.
bkmk
Which one do I download for Windows 7, Monthly Rollup or Security only?
I just had a WIN 10 update an hour ago. It was the Win 10 1809 update.
That box that has Win98 has a video card that I cannot use in any later version of Windows. It does a single frame capture.
I cannot recall launching a browser there in a decade.
It does run Visual Basic 5 to automate the capture function.
It is using Windows drive share with the other machines in the house. Those being WinXP, Win7 and linux. I hope the shares are secure.
Great. MS “patched” my Win7 the other day. I turned it on the next morning to find it had bluescreened.
Thanks...I think. In the middle of installing 170 updates (!) I didn’t think I was that out of the loop. Last I went through this was APR 2019. What’s that in dog years?
AFAIK the "Security Only" differs from the "Monthly Rollup" in that it only addresses actual security vulnerabilities. The Monthly Rollup has those, but also includes non-security related bug fixes and occasional feature fixes.
Personally I keep my Win7 machines fully patched, so I get the rollups. But if you only want security fixes, then use the other.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!
done... and THANK YOU!!! man it must be worse than AIDS for them to patch XP
No kidding! I imagine that a lot of the remote/embedded XP based systems like ATMs probably are accessed by RDP. Yikes!
So, I went to the security choice for my Win 7 64 bit laptop and it asked me if I wanted to save 4491755 to file ?? Didn’t seem to do anything. How do you just turn off remote desktop to be sure you aren’t open to attack?
If you did the monthly rollup system update for May, you are A-OK.
Control Panel -> System -> Remote Settings -> Remote
Under "Remote Assistance", UN-CHECK "Allow Remote Assistance..."
Under "Remote Desktop", CHECK "Don't allow connections to this computer"
Click OK, close Control Panel.
While we're on the topic of security, I'll mention in passing the Steve Gibson service and utility for reducing general vulnerability by making your Windows box less visible to the Internet.
I also found the following article, which popped up in a quick Google search for UPnP vulnerabilities, to be reasonably interesting:
UPnP: Vulnerability As a Feature That Just Won’t Die
BTW, Mr. Gibson's website also has a number of other freeware downloads. I kind of like the one for assigning a unique beep, boop, or bong to each key from A through Z. It's not my cup of tea, but the idea of driving nearby lurkers crazy with a random melody has its points. ^^;
Thanks dayglored...
Those were the settings on my Win7 laptop. Is it still vulnerable?
Right now the Microsoft page won't load for me, maybe because of my slow connection, thus I'm a bit in the dark as to what to do.
And shame on those people using default 3389 with a port open on their router.
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