Last time I looked the crappy software is on the MS side, so Apple cannot properly sue about that...MS is known to be shady enough to fund trolls for them to sue other companies, partly also because it had several run ins with the DoJ in the past.
Both situation are pretty well documented, and you know, someone invented something called Google...
Tell me about chatty...I wonder if any operating system would ever have the common sense of not stealing the focus of apps, at least if the user has been using the keyboard and mouse in the last couple of minutes.
I managed an ISP too...while we used open source, I also took the initiative to block several ports NetBIOS/others and SQLServer.
Once an unhappy customer complained and changed the SQLServer instance to another port for an app in another country to write to it, after being told by us that the properly way to do it was a VPN and we could assist with that, in less than two weeks they were hacked/infected by a bot, and ripe with malware in the internal network that used the SQLServer as an entry point.
As you said, our field teams took much of the brunt of dealing with customers and doing the first line of support for Windows customers; when inspecting their reports I would say 80% of them were cleaning viruses from Windows machines.
"The ransomware is using the ETERNALBLUE exploit, which uses a vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol to infect vulnerable computers left exposed online. Microsoft issued a patch for this vulnerability last March."
And that is why Checkpoint, Fortinet and others have already services nowadays that capture signatures of potential malware in a worldwide scale and block them at firewall level...
However we are talking here of big bucks, which should not be problem in this organisation.
Using Windows in production systems and sharing drives across multiple institutions and/or not blocking executables as email attachments in your email system seems the way to go from the guys that brought us ITIL for sure....
Prevention measures should be in place in several places of the infra-structure, but I realize we are talking about the NHS AND the UK.
If you are so smaart, maybe you should lunch your own linux distribution. And yeah, many of us are running Linux pretty well without system.
However, it is no longer a question of package management. Several packages have already dropped support for other boot managers.
You would better inform yourself better oh mighty one.
Nah. It is called precedence.
They want to create as much precedence they can in more obscure/smaller cases, to create precedence for being able to do this action in more stronger cases.
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I migrated out of linux decades ago, and nowadays starting the process of migrating out of OSX for *BSD.
Hmmm....you comment history just indicates you are an idiot or a wanna be troll....
Last time I looked the crappy software is on the MS side, so Apple cannot properly sue about that...MS is known to be shady enough to fund trolls for them to sue other companies, partly also because it had several run ins with the DoJ in the past.
Both situation are pretty well documented, and you know, someone invented something called Google...
After the systemd fiasco, for me is the year of FreeBSD in the desktop...Actually it is so much easier to setup wifi, for instance...
Tell me about chatty...I wonder if any operating system would ever have the common sense of not stealing the focus of apps, at least if the user has been using the keyboard and mouse in the last couple of minutes.
Cant Microsoft sue for infringement about selling malware that can sabotage user software?
I doubt they were hiring pricks. They were them...
I managed an ISP too...while we used open source, I also took the initiative to block several ports NetBIOS/others and SQLServer.
Once an unhappy customer complained and changed the SQLServer instance to another port for an app in another country to write to it, after being told by us that the properly way to do it was a VPN and we could assist with that, in less than two weeks they were hacked/infected by a bot, and ripe with malware in the internal network that used the SQLServer as an entry point.
As you said, our field teams took much of the brunt of dealing with customers and doing the first line of support for Windows customers; when inspecting their reports I would say 80% of them were cleaning viruses from Windows machines.
Did I hurt the ego of someone that has to post as an AC? Poor you...Send me your address and I will send you a box of tissues and some bonbons.
"The ransomware is using the ETERNALBLUE exploit, which uses a vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol to infect vulnerable computers left exposed online. Microsoft issued a patch for this vulnerability last March."
Beautiful, have you ever considered a career in politics?
And that is why Checkpoint, Fortinet and others have already services nowadays that capture signatures of potential malware in a worldwide scale and block them at firewall level...
However we are talking here of big bucks, which should not be problem in this organisation.
Using Windows in production systems and sharing drives across multiple institutions and/or not blocking executables as email attachments in your email system seems the way to go from the guys that brought us ITIL for sure....
Prevention measures should be in place in several places of the infra-structure, but I realize we are talking about the NHS AND the UK.
Hang people that use Windows in Mission Critical systems, and you kill two birds with one stone.
It smells more to major incompetence.
Racism card to come in 3...2...1
See this alternate link http://securityaffairs.co/word...
Are you having deja vu sensations? It must be a glitch of the Matrix...
I second that. I bought a brand new Lenovo and was amazed how well FreeBSD works there.
If you are so smaart, maybe you should lunch your own linux distribution. And yeah, many of us are running Linux pretty well without system.
However, it is no longer a question of package management. Several packages have already dropped support for other boot managers.
You would better inform yourself better oh mighty one.
Running Debian 8 and 9 in a couple hundred VMs without system installed. Running FreeBSD on my notebook....
Nah. It is called precedence.
They want to create as much precedence they can in more obscure/smaller cases, to create precedence for being able to do this action in more stronger cases.
I have installed FreeBSD, and will be evaluating OpenBSD too. Why OpenBSD vs FreeBSD?
Spot on!! Have never seen it so clearly laid out.
It would help if you knew you could also restart services and networking *before* systemd. (....)