Massive Ransomware goes global

[foz]

Linux is easy , my kids used slax live cd when they were six years old , now 16 ,[ no problems ].
I installed LXLE and Zorin on so many peoples computers ,moving them away from windows, [easy ].
I am writing this on PCLINUXOS full monty on a 2004 intel machine ,[ o it is my internet machine that is on 24/7 ]
3 laptops
1= old as with puppy Linux
2= mild life hp with LXLE , Zorin & vista
3= late with LXLE, Zorin , Ubuntu mate & Kali linux

O but I use windows off line for games

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by foz

I am writing this on PCLINUXOS full monty on a 2004 intel machine ,[ o it is my internet machine that is on 24/7 ]
3 laptops
1= old as with puppy Linux
2= mild life hp with LXLE , Zorin & vista
3= late with LXLE, Zorin , Ubuntu mate & Kali linux

O but I use windows off line for games

Sounds poretty much like how I do it since two years. W7 only as a game launcher, though online (Steam).

Even if the machine fecthes some malwarem, what coukld happen moe than compromising by Steam account? No data loss or privacy corruption is to be feared, I simply kill the HD and install W7 and games new and thats it. All work, email, browsing, data, photos, documents, are on a linux laptop.

For simmers and gamers, dual hardware really is the option to choose these times. While you can get some games to run under Linux, it is neither ideal (additonal controlle rhardware all too pften cause problems or lack drivers), nor are all games available for WINE or in Linux variants (though more than some people think). Especially study sims and hardcore sims are problematic under Linux. I stopped trying to get the stuff I am interestd in to run under Linux.

Maybe I one day end up with abandonign some games, and have my Assetto Corsa running on PS4.

Not ideal compared to PC, but better than nothing.

Chess on Linux is a sad thing, however. Nothing that comes even close to the Chessbase products and interfaces, or Arena. Even Android has better stuff for chessers. You cna play chess, yes, but advanced stuff for really serious chessers is not available fo Linux.

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Chess on Linux is a sad thing, however. Nothing that comes even close to the Chessbase products and interfaces, or Arena. Even Android has better stuff for chessers. You cna play chess, yes, but advanced stuff for really serious chessers is not available fo Linux.

That's a bummer, I like Arena to review game pgn files but prefer OTB. Online has too many cheaters in non bullet chess (I don't do bullet).

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by vienna

Not quite right: the NSA and the CIA are not "leaking cyber weapons all over the place". The cyber weapons weapons were stolen (possibly by, oh, say, someone like the FSB? ) from the NSA and CIA and released by "hacktivists"...<O>

Compared to CIA/NSA and other US based actors actors allegedly affiliated with FSB/SVR/GRU are small time amatuers.

I mean that is the core reason why we dont leak big way (and those are leaks - Vault-7 was the CIA wiki dump that was going around CIA related civilian contractors) the way US actors are. We just dont have that kind of arsenal or big organised organisations working on that kind of stuff.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by aanker

That's a bummer, I like Arena to review game pgn files but prefer OTB. Online has too many cheaters in non bullet chess (I don't do bullet).

If you have a smartphone or tablet with Android, I could help with some recommendations.

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Skybird

If you have a smartphone or tablet with Android, I could help with some recommendations.

Thanks but I don't have a smartphone or tablet - yes I know, I'm behind the technology times I don't even have a flip-phone! ha!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by aanker

Thanks but I don't have a smartphone or tablet - yes I know, I'm behind the technology times I don't even have a flip-phone! ha!

Nothing wrong there. I have my smartphone only since 4 months - and it is my first one. And a WLAN tab since 2.5 years. I do not like getting called or telephoning when not being at home.

[Skybird]

I cannot help it, but something smells fishy there. I had a suspicion from beginning on, since I read the first time that WannaCry only seems to attack W7, but not W10 or XP. Could it be that this shock and awe show has been somehow staged by Microsoft to discredit the biggest rival to its W10 - which would be W7? XP is not relevant anymore, but W7 still has the biggest marketshare, roughly one half of the Windows market.

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/window...ary-update-ok/

Their tactics have been so underhanded in past two years and they have overstepped so many red lines, that this scenario is absolutely not beyond their limit.

Note that I say this, not Woody. Woody just links to the numbers. Do not hold him responsible for what I think about loud.

[Rockin Robbins]

[Onkel Neal]

It's back

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19I1TD

[vienna]

I wonder if this is the reason why Microsoft issued "urgent" update and patches, even to XP, a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...53&postcount=1

Could these be the "state-sponsored" attacks MS was concerned about?...




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[STEED]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

It's back

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN19I1TD

Dallas?

Oh wait you mean..naughty malware.

[Rhodes]

It is 23:20 and using Win 7 32 bits and IE 11, and all is well!! Oh wait what this button do?

[Skybird]

Its a safe world. Digitze your life, your precious, your money,, everything - its safe! These digital things have inbuilt security, you know, it all was built to be trusted.

If you happen to still read Woody's blog you can see that recently things have turned from bad to worse in the Windows world. Its a mess. His DEFCON indicator since almost a week is at level 1 now, defintely not recommended to patch anything (i Wndows 10). Since the two years I read him, i have not seen things slide for the messy side for such a long, unbroken period of time.

Oh, since I am supposed to say it anyway: Windows is dead. Many of you just still refuse to see it. You are operating an infectous zombie. And it bites. Best advice is to no longe rinvest in peripheral hardware you can operate only under Windows. My latest race wheel for exmaple is also console compatible.

[vienna]

Seems some of the culprits behind last weeks cyber attacks may have been caught:

Police seize servers of Ukrainian software firm after cyber attack --

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN19P1YF




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