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And Windows XP was not targeted at all by WannaCry.

• marksomnian 9y ago
  In that case, Microsoft wouldn't have released an emergency patch for XP, three years after end of support. But they did [0]. [0]: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...
  • r721 9y ago
    XP could be targeted theoretically, the bug is there. But the particular WannaCry variant (which Kevin Beaumont‏ looked at) didn't work under XP: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/863339558364229634 https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/863339558364229634 https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/863100619242053632 https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/863100619242053632
  • nthcolumn 9y ago
    Come back to me when you find a single infection on XP with wcry 2.0, and then go look at when your 'emergency' patch was signed (Feb 17). Have you ever heard of 'PR'?
• PhasmaFelis 9y ago
  Windows XP systems were the primary victims of WannaCry.
  • lorenzhs 9y ago
    That is untrue: https://twitter.com/craiu/status/865562842149392384 https://twitter.com/craiu/status/865562842149392384
    • dpark 9y ago
      This assumes that Kaspersky software usage is consistent across Windows versions, which seems vanishingly unlikely since most XP systems are in China or in Corp environments.
    • PhasmaFelis 9y ago
      I may have been thinking of 7.