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WannaCry in an Updated Win7 system
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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 628682" data-attributes="member: 7463"><p>I wasn't clear at all in the text boxes in the video- The actual point was this: All of the news reports that I saw/read kept telling everyone that a Patch was available WITHOUT EVER MENTIONING THAT IT WOULD ONLY HELP STOPPING NETWORK SPREAD. But the typical home user could (and has) reasonably inferred that the patch will stop the ransomware encryption process, which is not the case at all.</p><p></p><p>I think the issue is the common one- someone put out a statement about the patch without elaborating on this, and everyone else either copies or re-words the initial press release so the network only protection issue gets lost.</p><p></p><p>For instance: <a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/wanna-cry/22e47764-1e46-4576-beaa-6270850b9fda" target="_blank">Does Windows 7 Premium have the patch to protect it from the Wanna Cry cyber attack?</a></p><p></p><p>And this is on the Microsoft website (sigh)...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 628682, member: 7463"] I wasn't clear at all in the text boxes in the video- The actual point was this: All of the news reports that I saw/read kept telling everyone that a Patch was available WITHOUT EVER MENTIONING THAT IT WOULD ONLY HELP STOPPING NETWORK SPREAD. But the typical home user could (and has) reasonably inferred that the patch will stop the ransomware encryption process, which is not the case at all. I think the issue is the common one- someone put out a statement about the patch without elaborating on this, and everyone else either copies or re-words the initial press release so the network only protection issue gets lost. For instance: [URL="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/wanna-cry/22e47764-1e46-4576-beaa-6270850b9fda"]Does Windows 7 Premium have the patch to protect it from the Wanna Cry cyber attack?[/URL] And this is on the Microsoft website (sigh)... [/QUOTE]
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