WannaCry and SMB1

On 28/05/2017 06:16, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 5/22/2017 2:25 PM, Alek wrote:
Since disabling SMB1 seems to be the way to thwart WannaCry, why isn't
it disabled in Windows 10?

It's easy enough to do manually:

Control Panel Programs and features Turn Windows features on or off

Wait for the table to be populated, scroll down and uncheck SMB1.

I read recently that something like 90% of the machines affected were
Windows 7 machines, and hardly any WinXP, even though WinXP would be the
most likely to be affected. Probably this is because a lot of Win7
machines are left in compatibility mode to accomodate networks full of
WinXP machines?

Yousuf Khan


There was no reason not to leave SMB1 enabled until this exploit was
known about. Once it was know about they released a patch and guess
what, there's still no reason not to leave SMB1 enabled because they've
patched it.

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