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Question: if my network has a PC running coinhive on it (something I DON'T want), would it maybe connect to the Monero blockchain via a VPN, and how much network traffic would pass through the firewall while the coinhive was mining? Very roughly. We've seen some odd behaviour from a contractor's PC ... with about 1GB/day when active. Investigation ongoing.

Yesterday, Microsoft Blog had a page of wannacry patches for older OSes, including XP and Server 2003, which was accessible. Now (21:05 UTC), that page fails for "Server Error".

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/