Risks-Forum Digest Saturday 13 May 2017 Volume 30 : Issue 29
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:27:31 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: Today's Massive Ransomware Attack Was Mostly Preventable --
Here's How To Avoid It (Gizmodo)
NNSquad
Yes, it's off-topic so I shouldn't reply, but as the (3 year old) link
has been posted, just a note from that article that:
“The security updates that could be installed are intended for Windows
Embedded and Windows Server 2003 customers and *do not fully protect
Windows XP customers*,” the
On 14 May 2017, Dave Widgery wrote:
> I also haven't checked if there is a security update for this
> particular malware
There is:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/
-- Mark
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get_iplayer
Hi a bit off topic but in view of the recent malware attack and some
of us still using windows XP I thought I would share this tip if
anyone was not previously aware.
An addition of a registry key that enables a continuation of security
updates on XP see pcworld article below. I did this a year
Yes, I reported a week or so ago that low-res modes were no longer available
as HLS for the majority of programmes. Fortunately, they are still available
with the "hvfx" modes. I download everything with "hvfxhigh", which produces
a file similar in size to that of the "hlsstd" mode which has
Hi Howard,
> I use --refreshexclude .* on the command line to suppress automatic
> cache refreshes. It works very well.
This still has get_iplayer go through the motions of refreshing the
cache, it's just there are never any channels to update when it gets to
the `for every channel...' point.
On 14 May 2017, Howard Orgel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 22:22:13 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote:
>
>> Is there an antonym for --refresh? I wonder what's the cleanest way to
>> tell get_iplayer not to refresh the cache. I thought about trying to
>> exclude everything but the manpage doesn't seem to
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