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74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

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Re: Solution

@h4rm0ny: Running a thorough fuzz test on a server using the SMB1 protocol should have found this, it is after all a problem caused by a subtraction operation run on a 16-bit value and a 32-bit value. They've had a few years to do it. Same goes for a thorough code review. SMB is a known weak point for viruses.

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