WannaCry POTENTIAL Hit. I'm spooked!

[Matthew P]

Well this is going to sound dumb so I'll start off with the first things I'd like to say.

I'm posting this here because even tho I have left the mbam forums for a long time I've always found it's community to be far more nice and helpful then reddit and other communities and tbh I find reddit annoying as a medium. So I'm glad to be able to post it somewhere like this (I also own a copy of Malwarebytes Premium :P).

 

Anyways I was just doing my daily stuff today. I had updated firefox (last night?) and what not. I will not lie. And I will admit. I have no yet updated windows for the patch that blocks the NSA exploits. *STUPID I KNOW* but I'm so far behind in updates I just haven't got around to it. :/ If someone could tell me exactly which updates fix that i'd speed download them first if that's even possible on windows 10.

 

Getting to the point:

I was on a website and windows firewall poped up saying it was blocking parts of firefox *no i didn't pay attention to the file path to see if it's the right firefox but I think it was?*

So I freaked out and closed that tab. I then ran wireshark *which I had just installed that day* sadly I think I forgot to restart anyways missing driver and wireshark BSODed my PC. I think that happened before. So I freaked out. I have like 15 boot scan disk all over my floor *ok just a linux boot disk I couldn't find my boot scanners*. But It wouldn't run for some reason. So I booted into safemode and scanned a full scan with mbam. ZERO THREATS. I am still concerned. What could I do next to ensure I'm safe?

 

I know I'm being pernoid. But I just wanan cover all my bases since if I have it it hasn't yet activated *cause i'm in safemode and bsoded at time of possible infection blah blah*

 

Recommendations?

[Aura]

Hi Matthew

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I have no yet updated windows for the patch that blocks the NSA exploits. *STUPID I KNOW* but I'm so far behind in updates I just haven't got around to it. :/ If someone could tell me exactly which updates fix that i'd speed download them first if that's even possible on windows 10.

If you have Windows 10, your Windows Update should be downloaded and installed as soon as they are released. Also, Windows 10 wasn't affected by ETERNALBLUE (the exploit that was pushing the WannaCry Ransomware).

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I was on a website and windows firewall poped up saying it was blocking parts of firefox *no i didn't pay attention to the file path to see if it's the right firefox but I think it was?*

So I freaked out and closed that tab.

It was just a fake error message, prompting you to call a phone number where someone would have ended up scammed you. These pages do not infect your system, nor do they drop anything on it. Close the tab/web browser and you'll be just fine.

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I then ran wireshark *which I had just installed that day* sadly I think I forgot to restart anyways missing driver and wireshark BSODed my PC. I think that happened before.

Wireshark indeed requires you to restart your computr after the installation, so it wouldn't surprise me that it threw a BSOD when you tried to use it if you hadn't restarted it before.

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What could I do next to ensure I'm safe?

Nothing really. You just got scared by a fake warning page. That "situation" ended the moment you closed your tab/web browser so you're just fine  

Is there anything else?

[Aura]

Hi Matthew,

Are you still with me?

[Aura]

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