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I believe it was compounded in this case by the fact that Microsoft did not release the patch to all users. That OS was no longer supported so they only made th
by macrael 9y ago
I believe it was compounded in this case by the fact that Microsoft did not release the patch to all users. That OS was no longer supported so they only made the patch available to customers who pay for long term support.
- dmoo 9y agoBut the point is that if you are not getting paid they are as you say users and not customers.
- macrael 9y agoThe point is that people could have died because Microsoft decided not to release a zero day patch widely. In fact, once WannaCry got bad enough, they did release the patch.
- nostoc 9y agoWhat OS? All OSes vulnerable to wannacry are still under support. Contrary to popular belief, wannacry will not spread to windows XP, it will just crash it. It will run on it if you fire the executable manually, but it will not infect an XP host through SMB.
- macrael 9y agoOh? I had heard that NHS didn't have access to the patch but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I was under the impression that XP was the main vulnerable OS under WannaCry