1 minute ago, bkk6060 said:

My gf has a couple of them.  WIll they work? :)

They worked fine for me. I always carry them on travel.

Try silicon earbuds. You can find it on Pharmacies. About 90 baht a pair. Quite effective.

So far I remeber, I never experienced that much rain in May. But I like it. It's not hot and nice for a walk.

An ATM in India. We can be happy that Thai ATMs aren't affected.

21 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

I find in PTY it's necessary to go to at least two stores weekly anyway to get it all.

Me too. Bread from Big C Extra (I love their French traditional Baguettes), and Foodland Klang for the rest.

9 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

FoodMart isn't OK?

Not at all.

40 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

You mean where the (mostly) empty condos are?

Threpasit would be a great location. No supermarket in Jomtien. Apart from Tesco and BigC.

Just went there. But don't like it. Imo too dark and limited assortment.

Is it now open or not? Sunday it was closed.

7 hours ago, chrisinth said:

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Microsoft fixed MS17-010 in its March release but it is likely organisations affected did not patch their devices before the spread of the malware

Exactly. Everyone had months of time to update their systems.

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So Microsoft knew this was going to happen already back in March? Then why didn't they make sure it would never happen?
 
I guess the Apple-stocks had a good day today.

4 minutes ago, ukrules said:

 

 

I suspect there will be many 100's of different vulnerabilities which are not widely known.

 

This applies to any computer be it Windows, IOS, MacOS, Linux, etc, etc

Yes, it's said, the Black Brokers Hacker group who published the vulnerability is in possession of other NSA exploits.  I guess, it's only a question of time till more of such things happen. We also can assume, that the NSA are using newer exploits. And with that, may be some hacker groups too. That's may be just the beginning of a dirty journey.

2 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Microsoft still support XP if you pay them which many companies do.

But not NHS. The ended the contract - I believe two Years ago. Bad decision. Buy cheap, pay twice.

Ya, almost exactly to the day, 2 Years ago they decided it.

Some news:

Wannacry Forced 20,000 PetroChina Gas Stations Offline, Is Bitcoin to be Blamed?

http://news.8btc.com/wannacry-forced-20000-petrochina-gas-stations-offline-is-bitcoin-to-be-blamed

Bank of China ATMs Go Dark As Ransomware Attack Cripples China

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-13/bank-china-atms-go-dark-ransomware-attack-slams-china

That's the most what worries me. Thai ATM's. But I guess it would happen already. So, probably we are safe.

7 minutes ago, JAS21 said:

Please give a link you back-up your statement ...

He won't find it.

Fact: Both, Win7 and Win 10 got at the same day the patch against this wannacrypt. So, without the patch, both OS are same vulnerable.

This SMB thing affects only Win 7 server and Win 10. It was never implemented in Win7 home. That's because there is nothing to disable. Win 10 users can disable it if they want. But as long they patched their OS properly, they are safe too.

You can check it yourself. If it says you are running xp or 7, you are vulnerable.

1 minute ago, fruitman said:

Also there should be a website online where we can just simple test if our computer is in danger or not.

That's a great idea. Indeed. MS should offer such a check.

2 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

 

Of course you can.

 

But that wasn't the point of my post; you told people that you could upgrade for free from XP to 10, I said you couldn't, that's all.

Just google it. Windows 10 is safe since the March update which also Windows 7 got. Windows 10 users who refused to install the security patch are not safe.

Just now, wgdanson said:

Try W10, you'll be surprised and SAFE.

Might be. But I'm concerned about availability of drivers for my 4 Year old Samsung.

Just now, wgdanson said:

Why did you not upgrade for FREE to W10?

And how old is the car you drive.......10 years?

Why I should? Win7 runs fine on my notebook. May be not Win 10. Since win 7 is fully supported by MS, no reason to change. In the worst case I would have to buy a new Notebook, since my Samsung isn't the newest one. But again, everything runs very well.

Except that it is vulnerable to malware.

Get rid of Windows 7 and install 10.

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

To prevent a WannaCry / WannaCryptor infection on windows 7 you need to disable something called SMB, I've included instructions to disable SMBv1, SMBv2 and SMBv3 on Windows 7 in this post. Note - there are different commands for other versions of windows - see the link at the end.

 

Doing the following on a Windows 7 installation will stop it :

 

Open a command prompt by clicking the 'round start menu button' then enter 'cmd' in the box at the bottom and press enter.

 

Copy and paste the following 4 separate lines one by one into the black command prompt window that pops up.

 

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb20/nsi
sc.exe config mrxsmb10 start= disabled

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi
sc.exe config mrxsmb20 start= disabled

 

After each line there will be a confirmation that it worked on the screen.

 

you must reboot the computer for this to become live and then you won't become infected with this particular variant of malware.

 

The above information comes from : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2696547/how-to-enable-and-disable-smbv1,-smbv2,-and-smbv3-in-windows-vista,-windows-server-2008,-windows-7,-windows-server-2008-r2,-windows-8,-and-windows-server-2012

 

Also note that if you're on a corporate network that uses SMB for whatever reason then it might not be such a great idea to do this, speak to the systems administrator but for home users it's just fine.

 

There are new variants of this malware circulating right now and they don't have the 'killswitch' in them.

I checked that several times. It looks, my Windows 7 Premium doesn't have this SMB features. I might be wrong, but it was mentioned on other places as well.

Payments gain momentum. Now about 42000 USD.

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