Show threadKevin Karhan Feb 16

@yura @dps910 @wboss No, just jo!

  • This constellation shouldn't exist to begin with.
    • If it did exist, you should've bought Extended Security Support for it since 2019
  • There's no legitimate excuse to have #TechIlliterates access said systems and being allowed to use the #Internet, save any files or even execute any code on it to begin with.
    • If you can't force the #Users to obey to simple rules, they have no business using said system.
  • There is a literal zoo of #ZeroClickMalware for #Windows7 that Microsoft refuses to combat!
    • The only option I know is some "Write-Protection Driver" like the one used by #hp for their #ThinClients on #WES7 which redirect all writes to a #Ramdisk and refuses to write them on disk before shutdown / reboot!
    • But that doesn't protect against executing malicious code stealing credentials!

You shure you can't migrate the system to a #VM and/or @bunsenlabs and/or passthrough any hardware to it?

  • Cuz unless you use like a "forensic write blocker" adaptor in the middle I see no chance of you winning this at all…
    • And even then: No "#Antivirus" (which as 3rd party Kernelhack is just #malware itself!) will be able to fix the fundamental flaws.
    • This includes even some like #Avast that install a #DPI component and #PacketFilter everything by acting as #MITM proxy!
Kevin Karhan Nov 22

I really am pissed about #hp right now.

Cuz I got to service an #t520 #ThinClient - nothing fancy but still.

  • I want to restore the #WindowsEmbeddedStandard7 on it because the previous owner didn't and it's kinda useless without admin privilegues.

  • So I checked on the hp website and found that they "serial-wall" the access to any #WES7 images (propably to appease #Microsoft) behind a prompt to enter the device's serial number.

  • Fortunately, that device was sold & shipped with WES7 and even has a license key, so I enter the one from the devices's label and get told "Serial Number Invalid".

  • I boot the device into it's UEFI to verify things and take a photo of the Serial # displayed there (which is the same but just to be shure I retried.

  • HP still claims the serial # is invalid, and since they won't provide support without a valid serial #, I'm really pissed.

Anyone else had this problem?

  • Is there any way to unfuck this mess??

Cuz I'm pretty shure no reasonable lawyer would take on a case for hardware that sells for €20 on eNay and is 11+ years old by now.

#Windows #Embedded #shitshow