WANNA CRY !

[big_teee]

There are a batch of Russian, and Chinese Packed Linux Distro's.
I stay clear of them too.
T

[rjb]

As if I'm going to trust my internet security to some Russian outfit.... riiiiight!

Hey, wait a minute... isn't that a Randall head?

[Dave H]

I wanna cry! I've just been reminded why I turned off all updates years ago. It was because I didn't want Microsoft breaking my computer. I did the security update in the OP on my wife's W8.1 laptop and it killed it stone dead! It won't even load up Windows now. All I get is an error message. Thanks Microsoft.

[The Dude]

Oh, that sux, Dave. If nothing else, try running system restore. You may need to run it in safe mode if the thing won't boot. Just pick a restore point prior to your last update.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-...indows-2626131

[Dave H]

Oh, that sux, Dave. If nothing else, try running system restore. You may need to run it in safe mode if the thing won't boot. Just pick a restore point prior to your last update.[/URL]

Thanks for the tip Dude. I didn't think to use safe mode as I was in panic mode! (she wasn't well pleased) but I did remember that I had the files downloaded to make a rescue disk (actually a rescue flash drive as it doesn't have an optical drive) so I was able boot from the flash drive to run System Restore and it fixed it, phew!

[The Dude]

Happy wife. Happy life!

[big_teee]

Hey Dave :
I was fixing to give you my pat answer!
It looks like a good time to load Ubuntu!
But, You fixed it!
Glad it worked out!
T

[nickb]

Hey Dave :
I was fixing to give you my pat answer!
It looks like a good time to load Ubuntu!
But, You fixed it!
Glad it worked out!
T

Funny you should say that. Pretty much the same happened to a neighbour only they did not have a backup, recovery disk, restore partition or even the original windows key. I installed Ubuntu on it for them.

[Steve A.]

Oh, that sux, Dave. If nothing else, try running system restore. You may need to run it in safe mode if the thing won't boot. Just pick a restore point prior to your last update.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-...indows-2626131

Damn... I picked up some sort of bug last week which popped up a persistent window in my Pale Moon browser (a sleek hot rodded version of Firefix) giving me a link to click on to return control of my computer to me. After rebooting everything seemed fine until I opened Pale Moon... the damned persistent window popped up again!
No problem-o... I just need to go to System Restore which will fix everything. Only when I went there all of my System Restore points were gone! So I was wondering: did some malware delete them? That would sure be a sneaky trick...

Everything seemed to be fine as long as I didn't open Pale Moon (I had even installed the latest version of it which did not help.) So I decided to run Internet Explorer for the first time in many years specifically to download the 60 day trial of Norton since Avast wasn't finding and fixing the problem.

I hadn't installed Norton yet but had to run Pale Moon very cautiously yesterday to get an old password through the Options window and guess what? The damned persistent window was gone!

[big_teee]

Funny you should say that. Pretty much the same happened to a neighbour only they did not have a backup, recovery disk, restore partition or even the original windows key. I installed Ubuntu on it for them.

Did you install Ubuntu proper with Unity Desktop, or some other variety?
I usually use Xubuntu, Ubuntu Sudio, or U-Mate/XFCE desktop.
T

[nickb]

Did you install Ubuntu proper with Unity Desktop, or some other variety?
I usually use Xubuntu, Ubuntu Sudio, or U-Mate/XFCE desktop.
T

It was Unity. I think Unity is fine if you don't want to do and 'under the hood' type stuff. They just needed to use the Browser and Libre Office type stuff.

[DrGonz78]

Looks like another Wanna Cry virus just hit again, this time called Petya. Don't let it Petya computer!!
Petya cyber attack: Ransomware spreads across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain shut down

[electriz]

What is exactly this Wanna Cry virus/malware?

[big_teee]

What is exactly this Wanna Cry virus/malware?

I may be responding to a bot, not sure.
WannaCry is ransomware.
WannaCry explained: What is WannaCry ransomware and how does it work? | Security | Techworld
T