Anyone hit by WannaCrypt?

[Leon Goldstein]

I have a legitimate copy of WP X3 on my Windoh's system, and it is 
"perfect" for my needs.

I also have the hoary WP8.1 that was bundled with Corel Debian. I have 
gotten it to run on the Linuces that still have the libc5 support.  Open 
SuSE still can run WP8.1, and the 32-bit Linux Mint.

In a pinch, I can create a document in WP8.1 and then open it in 
LibreOffice, which has an import filter, and print from there.

But getting back on topic:

Windoh's has an update - 1607 - that was released last year.  It fails 
to install on my, and from what I see on the internet, on a a lot of 
other Windoh's installs.  There are a lot of suggestions, but nothing 
evidently works with any consistency.  And Microsludge does not 
acknowledge any serious problem.

One of the suggested fixes for the 1607 installation failure is to 
disable all automatic updates.  I bewt more than a few sysops did this 
to stop the annoying download and fail cycle.  So who knows how many 
Windoh's systems were left vulnerable this way?


On 05/16/2017 07:05 AM, Man-wai Chang via Linux-users wrote:
> On 15/5/2017 11:21 PM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:
>> I have win 10 on one computer; it came with it.  The only use I have 
>> for it is running my income tax program.  I also use it occasionally 
>> to write using Word Perfect, which can still run in SuSE and 32-bit 
>> Mint. But it can't print (since glibc 3.2.3)
>
> You could use WordPerfect X8 for WinTendo Trial Edition free for a 
> period of time. Then you could print your WordPerfect/DOS documents 
> using Window$. When the trial period expired, you just need to reset 
> the registries and install it again. ;)
>
> http://www.wordperfect.com/en/free-trials/
>
> > I keep getting notices of failed updates.  It downloads and reports
> > failure to install.  The web is full of reports of this and lots of
> > suggested solutions, none of which work.
>
> Start the Window$ Update when you are about to prepare your dinner. 
> Leave it there running for 2-3 hours. Then the updates should be 
> working. There is also something called Cumulative Update Rollup to try.
>
> If all these tricks failed, you should just re-install Win 10 using 
> the latest ISO (Creator Update) and apply all updates right after 
> installation.
>
> Download Windows 10 ISO without Media Creation Tool
> (by changing browser user agent string to be non-Window$ as OS)
> http://www.intowindows.com/download-windows-10-iso-without-media-creation-tool/ 
>
>
>> One proposed solution is to disable all updates.  I suspect this is 
>> what system operators are doing and why the various worms and malware 
>> are getting in.
>
> Run WinTendo inside a VM? :)
>
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Leon A. Goldstein
System L3
Linux Mint 17.3