[HN Gopher] Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to instal...
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       Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced
       rootkit
        
       Author : fortran77
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-08-20 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | graycat wrote:
       | Been afraid of something like that:
       | 
       | Mostly running Windows 7 Professional with latest patches from
       | Microsoft. Had an HP Laptop with Windows 10 Home Edition where
       | the hard disk failed. So, got another HP, with Windows 11 Home.
       | 
       | I'm a _traditional_ Windows user and am writing software in .NET,
       | IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server. My most important tools are Rexx for a
       | scripting language and KEdit for my text editor. I don 't want
       | Windows to be more like a _smartphone_.
       | 
       | Microsoft made a lot of changes from 10 to 11, and for my
       | traditional usage made Windows too different to use. Bluntly I
       | have to regard 11 as unacceptable for my traditional usage on 7
       | and 10 and am eager to replace 11 with 10.
       | 
       | Sooooo, I'm ready to pull hair and scream trying to find a way to
       | install a genuine, 100% authentic, dyed in the wool, DVD, SSD,
       | _SEO_ , whatever, I can use to install 10 on my new HP.
       | 
       | HELP!!!!!
        
         | lhamil64 wrote:
         | I'm curious why you prefer Rexx as a scripting language on
         | Windows over something like Python or even PowerShell. I use it
         | quite a bit for work and find it pretty limiting. With a lack
         | of built in libraries even some simple stuff like parsing JSON
         | can be a huge pain.
        
           | graycat wrote:
           | Why Rexx? (A) Used it for decades. (B) The latest _Object
           | Oriented Rexx_ has some nice things, e.g., SysFileTree to get
           | a nice file of all the names in a directory tree. (C) Yup, I
           | agree that could use more tools and not have to _roll my
           | own_. (D) Sure, looked at PowerShell: Looks like it has some
           | nice _powerful_ features but a, uh, _goofy_ syntax -- intend
           | to do more, maybe a lot more, with it. (E) Lots of people are
           | taking Python seriously, and for more than just a scripting
           | language, e.g., maybe all the software for a significant Web
           | site. Intend to devote a weekend to Python.
           | 
           | One little thing I did recently with Rexx was take an email
           | message, all in just text, that had a Web page, as a MIME
           | (multi-media Internet Mail Extensions or some such) Part, get
           | the MIME part with the HTML, fix the email '=' characters
           | used for _splitting_ long lines, replaced some uses of
           | special characters, and did get a Web page that Firefox would
           | read. Worked? Yup. Elegant? Nope.
        
         | wildzzz wrote:
         | Here's some good news: your license for Windows 11 is probably
         | good for Windows 10 as well. Grab a Windows 10 install media
         | from Microsoft and do a clean install on the drive.
         | 
         | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
        
           | jwrallie wrote:
           | Still there is only one year left of support if you do that.
        
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