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Still no exploit in the wild for the “wormable” Win7/WinXP exploit
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AskWoody MVPMay 19, 2019 at 9:00 am #1690873Researchers at Mcafee and Zerodium both have working exploits for this. Neither have released technical details. There are no publicly available exploits at this stage, nor evidence of exploitation in wild.
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) May 19, 2019my bolding
Considering McAfee are having problems with the Win7/Server 2008 R2 Monthly Rollup and Security-only patches for a second month how would McAfee prevent/fix it and secure PC’s if there was an exploit running wild now?
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AskWoody_MVPMay 19, 2019 at 5:59 pm #1696189My computer is patched to forestall any “wild” exploits.
On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
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