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Message   not    All   Re: Did Kaspersky step in dog-doo? (was: Massive attack of ranso   May 15, 2017
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From: "Ant" <not@home.today>

"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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