Windows 10 not effected by Wannacry sercurity attack

[mnorian]

The Wannacry cyber attack earlier this month targeted Windows 7 more then any other Windows operating system. Microsoft had sent out a security up-date in March that dealt with this security glitch; so any machine that was on MS's security updates were not effected. MS also sent out to other MS OP's; beside those already on security up-dates; the fix; to Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003; customers.

This is one of the reasons Windows users should up-grade to Win 10 if their OP can't be updated; or if they can; keep their machines on Windows update.

 

[DeerGlow]

The Wannacry cyber attack earlier this month targeted Windows 7 more then any other Windows operating system. Microsoft had sent out a security up-date in March that dealt with this security glitch; so any machine that was on MS's security updates were not effected. MS also sent out to other MS OP's; beside those already on security up-dates; the fix; to Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003; customers.

This is one of the reasons Windows users should up-grade to Win 10 if their OP can't be updated; or if they can; keep their machines on Windows update.

I noticed my laptop was fine, even when the second wave was predicted to hit. Yay Windows 10.

 

[RC1970]

The Wannacry cyber attack earlier this month targeted Windows 7 more then any other Windows operating system. Microsoft had sent out a security up-date in March that dealt with this security glitch; so any machine that was on MS's security updates were not effected. MS also sent out to other MS OP's; beside those already on security up-dates; the fix; to Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003; customers.

This is one of the reasons Windows users should up-grade to Win 10 if their OP can't be updated; or if they can; keep their machines on Windows update.

I noticed, when the March update went through, that Microsoft tightened up all of the security loopholes that they had added to Windows 7 after many people complained about Vista. I knew that the loopholes would come back to bite people.

 

[Wookiee]

This is one of the reasons Windows users should up-grade to Win 10 if their OP can't be updated; or if they can; keep their machines on Windows update.

Problem is it's harder to do in corporate environments. I'm slowly moving all of our computers to Windows 10, but it's slow going. And then you have all the people who will never reboot or shut down their computers to apply updates. All it takes is one compromised computer with write access to a network share to frell things up.

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

The Wannacry cyber attack earlier this month targeted Windows 7 more then any other Windows operating system.

Considering the effort Microsoft went through to get people to switch to Win 10, I'm tempted to wonder if this was just another one of their schemes, but it probably has more to do with forced updates in Win 10, versus corporations remaining on Win 7 with updates being slowly vetted by IT professionals. If Windows didn't have such a bad reputation regarding their patches, much of this might have been avoided. People have been hesitant to accept patches for a reason, and this is the result. Win 10 forces people to choose the rock over the hard place.

I've got a five-letter solution to the whole thing, and it sounds a lot like a Peanuts character.