Thanks Dianne.
FWIW, I found from a net posting that the way to disable 445 is to edit the
registry (run regedit) to add
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters
Name: SMBDeviceEnabled
Type: DWORD (REG_DWORD)
Data: 0
Don’t forget to restart your computer afte
On Sat, 13 May 2017 09:55:04 -0400
J C Nash wrote:
> 1) To help slow down the spread of the ransomware, is it worth linux
> users putting
> min protocol = SMB2
I doubt it could spread on Linux anyway. The bug is most likely
Windows-specific and the payload is extremely unlikely to run on Linux.
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