Or...........don't open strange email attachments!!!!!
If Your XP machine was hit . . . .
Look Here -> |
Or...........don't open strange email attachments!!!!!
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Statistically, if you wait long enough, everything will happen!
protect your xp
There are people working in those departments that were hit who might have to open hundreds of emails a day and read the attachments.
Also I would prefer that underfunded hospitals attempt to invest in medical equipment rather than wasting their limited resources on purchasing new computers and software
licences every 3 years.
So good on them for keeping their old XP systems alive that still do the same job as the new ones and also for Microsoft who released the tool and finally the patch despite their 'end of support' policy, although it might have come too late for some.
Last edited by Uncle Fester; 21-05-17 at 12:20 PM.
Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
tristen (21-05-17)
I have machines stuck on XP sp2 x86 - No patch for them and they rely on Port 445.
I have Isolated as much as I can for now.
I had no idea what Citect Scada was until I looked it up.
Yes, I too am running Windows XP SP 2, because I found (at the time) that certain software did not like SP3.
Thanks for the reply.
I found "Windows Worm Door Cleaner"
It checks if known ports are open and gives you a chance to close them.
When I get more time, I will close open ports one at a time on one machine to see if there is any issues.
I grabbed it from
tristen (22-05-17)
Simple fix dont use windows , problem solved
porkop (23-07-17)
By the same token, you can't get into a car accident if you stay out of a car!
fixed isemmens
Last edited by cmangle; 13-06-17 at 07:01 AM.
Actually I was killed in an accident when I was not driving! FWIW, we were stationary at a Police Road Block with a Road Train Pulling Out onto the Highway in front of us. So, the only other thing I could have done is not even be anywhere near a road., Now, BOT.
Sadly, there are those who think, "It can't happen to me" and act accordingly. Like the idiot who parked on top of us, He had driven whilst pickled on other occasions and gotten away with it. Anything you do on a computer is liable to become someone else's property, whether you want it to or not. It amazes me that someone gets a message from "Microsoft" and actually thinks that Billy has chosen them for some reason......
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
cmangle (13-06-17)
porkop (23-07-17)
Wine works for many things, however, adding another layer between the program and its intended target may not be possible. e.g. if you have a windoze program that communicates directly with a Wigwam that talks to the gooses Bridle, The Wigwam may not recognise the prorgram if it uses a virtual machine which is exactly what Wine is.
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
Yes, I have heard of Wine.
I also have a Linux machine as well as several Macs.
However a virtual machine is not always a feasible way to run some Windows-based programs.
Thanks to lsemmens and hoe for explaining this in further detail than I would have.
Yes, in particular programs which utilise timing loops, wait states etc. to generate subroutine delays will not take kindly to using a virtual machine.
seriously, xp was released 16 years ago and was superseded by vista in 2006......
anyone running it , or any other o/s that old, on the internet is asking for trouble......
all the linux fanboys with their 'don't use windows' preaching, should realise this. after all, are they still running red hat 7.1 or mandrake 8.0 ?, shit they were basic (pun intended)........
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