I've been looking at some of the web postings about the Wannacry malware, and it seems that it is a Samba version 1 exploit. Seemingly not a direct impact on Linux users at the client level, nor on Linux servers, though I welcome correction if I'm not right on this.
Two questions: 1) To help slow down the spread of the ransomware, is it worth linux users putting min protocol = SMB2 in the [global] section of the samba smb.conf file? I've done this on one of my Linux Mint 18 boxes and rebooted. Seems to work fine (but I don't use smb explicitly myself). 2) I use some WinXP VMs on Virtualbox. Should I do anything on those to reduce the spread of infection? I certainly have not updated (can't) in quite a while. They are still useful for a few operations requiring DRM access to remote sites like CTV or OPL. Best, JN _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
