THANK YOU! I’ve been yelling into the wind about this since March. MS17-010 is the main update. Do NOT think you are safe if you have Windows update turned off. Everyone thinks they’re “giving it” to Microsoft by turning off Windows update, when in reality, you’re part of the problem.
Windows users ARE the problem.
Mine is on automatic update..but I’ve been running the Microsoft updater steady now for a good part of the morning and surprised how much better my computer is running.
Could it be Microsoft simply isn’t doing automatic updates on some computers or failed to include certain updates? I have a Vista and really quite surprised the improvement just by running the updater .......
“THANK YOU! I’ve been yelling into the wind about this since March. MS17-010 is the main update. Do NOT think you are safe if you have Windows update turned off. Everyone thinks they’re “giving it” to Microsoft by turning off Windows update, when in reality, you’re part of the problem.”
this “patch” business is nonsense.
ransomware programs execute as ordinary programs that need neither privileged access nor a “security hole” in order to function. They run just fine even in a limited user account that has zero privileged access. So I really don’t know what all of this “patch” nonsense is about.
For any windows system that has been “patched” or not, all one has to do is stupidly click the wrong link (or even worse, stupidly open an attachment) in an email and any ransomware program therein will land in the user’s temp file area and automatically execute, accessing every user data file with designated filetypes, reading said files and then writing them back with an unbreakable encryption.
If one has file shares that said user can access and/or usb attached files, then those get encrypted as well.
This has been going on for years. I had one client where one click of one email link encrypted every file on every file share for her entire business.
so-called antivirus programs basically just recognize signature patterns in the virus executable and if they haven’t seen a particular signature before then they are helpless.
microsoft systems are inherently insecure no matter how many “patches” they issue because they allow all users to execute any ordinary program from any location in the user’s file tree. even worse, by default, all users on a microsoft system are supersusers with full privileged access at all times.
microsoft systems can be secured only by making ordinary user accounts limited-privilege accounts by default, and taking all execute privilege from limited users except for programs that have been installed by the system itself into system areas of the file system that are not write-accessible by limited users, but microsoft refuses to do that.
As a consequence, almost all microsoft home systems are riddled with viruses sooner or later and most people find it cheaper to buy a new computer (with a new microsoft operating system and office program) than to have their system restored to factory state, all updates applied, all programs reinstalled and all data copied and restored. Thus, microsoft (and its oem partners) profit enormously from selling grossly unsecured systems, which means selling insecure systems is a deliberate profit-making strategy by microsoft.
We have auto updates turned off much of the time because we use satellite internet and M$ would eat up all our data during prime hours without giving options to schedule updates during our virtually unlimited off hour data. I don’t understand why users are not given options to schedule updates without jumping through hoops with complex scripting.
THANK YOU! I’ve been yelling into the wind about this since March. MS17-010 is the main update. Do NOT think you are safe if you have Windows update turned off. Everyone thinks they’re “giving it” to Microsoft by turning off Windows update, when in reality, you’re part of the problem.
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Does this count for my WIN 7?
how would it get in my computer?
And why don’t these hackers do something useful like take down Facebook?
I miss Black ICE. It made you invisible to the internet. Is there anything like it today?