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74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

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Head in hands or head in sands?

Way too much crap talked about people running XP systems.

People on very high horses telling people that they should somehow find the money to upgrade their hardware to then allow them to upgrade their software...

... all to fix a security flaw in the original software.

Fine if new drivers are not supported... new programs don't work... hey that's fine.

But when you first issue a security patch for 'paying support' users... and not issue it to everybody????

Okay... so a few days later (like today or yesterday) they finally list the XP patch as a universal download... but it's already too late for many AND how many people read "the patch is for support paying members only"?

That statement is still up BTW.

However, I know many people still running XP, so I persevered until I found the downloadable patch:

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598

What would it have cost MS to have released this immediately?

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