looks like the world is being attacked by a very serious Ransomware virus.

so far UK, US, China, Russia, Spain and many more data's being hold to Ransom. its called WannaCry. and affects windows computers.

The infections seem to be deployed via a worm - a program that spreads by itself between computers.

Most other malicious programmes rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.

By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too.

Some experts say the attack may have been built to exploit a weakness in Microsoft systems that had been identified by the NSA and given the name EternalBlue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

 

[Garblant]

Hm , i guess im gonna be more paranoid when using the internet rip

I haven't used my computer since the event occurred (semi-public internet connection)

 

[SonicCloud]

They just have to learn to not run random .exe from emails. The problem is that Windows does exactly what the users tell it to do. Run malicious .exe? sure, let's spread the virus now!

Its funny , because when you download something like safe homebrew windows gives you 1001 warnings about it , but if its a real shit virus it doesnt says shit lmao.

 

[dankzegriefer]

This is why we need to stop exploit stockpiling by governments. Will these idiots not learn?

 

[Slattz]

This is why we need to stop exploit stockpiling by governments. Will these idiots not learn?

You reminded me of this xD


But yea, they need to get their security straightned out first before they start hoarding deadly exploits :/ Or even better, just not hoarde exploits.

 

[Deleted member 408979]

Lets think for a second.

UK and Spain clearly didn't do it.

China and Russia, if they had done it, wouldn't have used it against themselves.

But the US clearly would have. They (by they I mean their government) don't care if a few computers are compromised as long as other countries computers are.

Especially with Cheeto rubbing his filthy ass in the presidential chair.

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Lets review some other possible candidates.

North Korea: If this country cant even feed itself do you expect it to be able to create malware?
ISIS: They've never done something so powerful. And these guys stick to routine.
Mexico: All the wars we've fought have been in self defense. And only self defense from armed forces. Our government didnt do this. (plus they're too stupid)

 

[pivix]

B- but... mah games.

Buy console and start playing on it x)

Wysłane z mojego LG-D855 przy użyciu Tapatalka

 

[dankzegriefer]

Lets think for a second.

UK and Spain clearly didn't do it.

China and Russia, if they had done it, wouldn't have used it against themselves.

But the US clearly would have. They (by they I mean their government) don't care if a few computers are compromised as long as other countries computers are.

Especially with Cheeto rubbing his filthy ass in the presidential chair.

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Lets review some other possible candidates.

North Korea: If this country cant even feed itself do you expect it to be able to create malware?
ISIS: They've never done something so powerful. And these guys stick to routine.
Mexico: All the wars we've fought have been in self defense. And only self defense from armed forces. Our government didnt do this. (plus they're too stupid)

It's not a government. They wouldn't have used a leaked and patched exploit.

 

[Deleted member 408979]

By that I meant an agency of the government.

 

[sarkwalvein]

North Korea: If this country cant even feed itself do you expect it to be able to create malware?

I am not quite sure why you say that.
They seem to manage just fine about developing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and I think that might be a tad more complex.

 

[dankzegriefer]

By that I meant an agency of the government.

It's obviously not a state entity.

 

[Garblant]

I am not quite sure why you say that.
They seem to manage just fine about developing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and I think that might be a tad more complex.

Yeah, they have a division for hacking, IIRC. They would also be safe since their internet is essentially in a bubble.

 

[Joom]

Its funny , because when you download something like safe homebrew windows gives you 1001 warnings about it , but if its a real shit virus it doesnt says shit lmao.

See malware crypters.

 

[Deleted User]

>Implying wine is actually good and doesn't have any issue what-so-ever
lmao

WIne is really good, I use it for running video editing programs, running some old games, running other things. It's good and when did I ever say the last part? Talk about putting words in my mouth ugh

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Oh. Don't blame me, i only tested it in 2011 e.e

Bashing on something you tested almost 6 years ago
You have actually no right to bash on Wine in it's current state, sorry.

 

[MrJason005]

wut I thought you said you were getting ubuntu not debian? deb is pretty nice, it lacks the telemetry of ubuntu and all the corporate shit it has

I've been going in and out of linux since the whole netbook craze back in 2009-2011 and when ubuntu netbook was still a thing.
I've wanted to switch back to linux since a couple of months ago, I installed Linux Mint on my old laptop before I got my desktop and it was one of the best computer experiences I have ever experienced. I even wrote a gui program for fan control, and that was great.
Now I want to get back into Linux, and I don't know what to install. I tried kubuntu but this bug ended it for me, and now I don't know where to go from here. Debian is too empty for me and requires a lot of setup work (You may bring up the whole "Arch has no packages pre-installed" but I like having a starting point and adding removing what I like), and I wanted to try something closer to ubuntu than Linux mint, since mint is basically 100% guaranteed to drift away from the whole "Oh yes we will support Ubuntu".
Now fedora and Arch linux do not have the debian as the base distro on which they are built on, and Debian has the most support (If you judge it from the percentage of forum threads that make it to Google's first page). I am sorry, but I have better things to do than to look at 50 2009 threads that their last reply is "k guyz i fixed it pls lock the thread" (For christ's sake, type out what you did to fix the issue). I did it a couple of times and I realized that it's not fun after 15 minutes of just scratching my head.
As for corporate shit, I have no interest. Canonical isn't pure evil, and in the end the code is open source, so there is nothing to hide.

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WIne is really good, I use it for running video editing programs, running some old games, running other things. It's good and when did I ever say the last part? Talk about putting words in my mouth ugh

I actually got fallout new vegas running on it once and it was great

 

[nl255]

Having multiple AVs is a bad idea due to how they hook into the kernel. It can lead to registry problems and even a broken boot sequence. And yeah, I really despise AVG since it's overly sensitive to all the wrong things.

The free version of MBAM doesn't have those hooks because it doesn't support real time scanning. That being said, I just use virustotal for anything I am concerned about and for anything potentially dangerous there is either a VM or sandboxie.

 

[GhostLatte]

I've never seen a thread more relatable to a Filthy Frank video.

 

[Pluupy]

ITT Linux users aggressively circlejerk to the only moment in time they could ever.

Come back next week when we return to our regular programming of crying over games not being released for Linux and them needing to dualboot into Windows.

 

[Jayro]

I have to upgrade my Windows from Pro to Enterprise LTSB anyways, so I'm just gonna reinstall fresh. Then I'll install ALL Windows Updates, just to be safe from this.

 

[Deleted User]

ITT Linux users aggressively circlejerk to the only moment in time they could ever.

Come back next week when we return to our regular programming of crying over games not being released for Linux and them needing to dualboot into Windows.

ITT Windows users cry over a person using another operating system

Come back tomorrow when we return to our regular programming of Windows users with a superiority complex

 

[Boogieboo6]

These 19 pages of brawling made me want to try Linux again. I know I'll regret it though, because of hardware incompatibility.