Work laptop was in a reboot cycle. Had to delete a file that was pushed to get it to stop and allow to work. They could push anything without us knowing.
Yes, I think this down is targeted at large organizations, and I have seen updates happen, over the weekend, in a medium-sized organization. The firewalls there, are also very high and they use a VPN, just saying. So their computers are still working.
I have disabled updates until further notice on my private device - I am always on a manual setting for updates anyway, because I believe in not fixing something that's not broken. So for example, I kept using XP until I moved to Windows 7 - thereby avoiding some of the pitfalls. I also held off from Windows 10 for the longest time. So as far as I am concerned, most updates are self-serving, not anti-hacking. So, by my apparent non-patching laziness, I magicly seem to avoid most garbage.
Work laptop was in a reboot cycle. Had to delete a file that was pushed to get it to stop and allow to work. They could push anything without us knowing.
Yes, I think this down is targeted at large organizations, and I have seen updates happen, over the weekend, in a medium-sized organization. The firewalls there, are also very high and they use a VPN, just saying. So their computers are still working.
I have disabled updates until further notice on my private device - I am always on a manual setting for updates anyway, because I believe in not fixing something that's not broken. So for example, I kept using XP until I moved to Windows 7 - thereby avoiding some of the pitfalls. I also held off from Windows 10 for the longest time. So as far as I am concerned, most updates are self-serving, not anti-hacking. So, by my apparent non-patching laziness, I magicly seem to avoid most garbage.