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Does this mean that I can safely connect my outdated Windows 7 back to the internet?


You are fine if you are behind a router on a local network at home and don't have SMB port exposed to the public internet. And assuming all other clients on your network aren't infected.


No! All it takes is a single byte to be patched and the "killswitch" can be disabled. There are almost certainly other variants already in circulation.

Use an offline security update.


Yep, tried doing that. But unfortunately I could get it to install. Keep getting "This update is not applicable to your computer" even though I'm doing everything right.


*couldn't


Disable SMBv1 before you connect it!


Are there any side effects of disabling SMBs for your local machine that you won't be using to connect to network drives?




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