From: Shadow <[email protected]>

On Sun, 14 May 2017 13:29:42 +0000 (UTC), Jamey Caterwauler
<<[email protected]>> wrote:

No.

You are new here, nice to meet you. Let me guess. Norton ?
McAfee ? Malwarebytes ? TLAs ?
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From: CRNG <[email protected]>

On Sun, 14 May 2017 13:29:42 +0000 (UTC), Jamey Caterwauler
<<[email protected]>> wrote in <of9m46$1a7t$[email protected]>

"Would any one of you be
comfortable with Kaspersky Lab's software on your computers?" To
a man, all replied that they would opt not to have Kaspersky
Lab's software on their computers.

So what would be a good alternative?
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From: FredW <[email protected]d>

On Mon, 15 May 2017 08:10:53 -0500, CRNG <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Sun, 14 May 2017 13:29:42 +0000 (UTC), Jamey Caterwauler
<<[email protected]>> wrote in <of9m46$1a7t$[email protected]>

"Would any one of you be
comfortable with Kaspersky Lab's software on your computers?" To
a man, all replied that they would opt not to have Kaspersky
Lab's software on their computers.

So what would be a good alternative?

belony!

- Kaspersky

- Eset

All those that replied have clearly no idea whatsoever of IT-matters.
They give only politically desirable answers (they think).

And this massive attack of ransomware was caused by the NSA and the USA. (responsible are those people that replied).

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/
The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits
stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States.
That theft was publicly reported earlier this year. A month prior, on
March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this
vulnerability and protect our customers.

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From: "Ant" <[email protected]>

"FredW" wrote:

All those that replied have clearly no idea whatsoever of IT-matters.
They give only politically desirable answers (they think).

Neither do the people running the affected networks and systems,
apparently. They should be fired.

And this massive attack of ransomware was caused by the NSA and the USA.

Not really. People (amd Microsoft) should have woken up in 2003 when
the Sever Mesage Block (SMB) software listening on port 445 was first
exploited by the Blaster worm. There is no reason for SMB to be
listening for incoming internet connections and no excuse for not
firewalling this port.


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From: FredW <[email protected]d>

On Mon, 15 May 2017 20:52:07 +0100, "Ant" <[email protected]> wrote:

"FredW" wrote:

All those that replied have clearly no idea whatsoever of IT-matters.
They give only politically desirable answers (they think).

Neither do the people running the affected networks and systems,
apparently. They should be fired.

And this massive attack of ransomware was caused by the NSA and the USA.

Not really. People (amd Microsoft) should have woken up in 2003 when
the Sever Mesage Block (SMB) software listening on port 445 was first >exploited by the Blaster worm. There is no reason for SMB to be
listening for incoming internet connections and no excuse for not
firewalling this port.

Further reading showed me you are right.

(ever more facts are appearing how this originated.)

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