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The forum discusses the ongoing PrintNightmare vulnerability, with users expressing concern over whether it has been fully fixed. While a new patch was anticipated for August, updates indicate vulnerabilities persist beyond the patch. The consensus is that, at that time, the safest workaround remains disabling the print spooler service until a complete fix is released.
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Do we have a new assailant? This sounds worse than the printnightmare scenario which I don't believe has been fixed yet... any thoughts?
 

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No, that is the latest print spooler CVE disclosed after August patching with no fix presently. The work around is still the same. Stop and disable the print spooler service.
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New malware is created almost everyday from existing threat actors, individuals and state sponsored groups.
 

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Thanks. While we are on the subject of malware etc., has the print nightmare been fixed yet? Thanks.
 

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Supposedly a new patch for "PrintNightmare" is being released for August patches tomorrow. Hopefully that will take care of it for good.
 

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I have not seen anything online about the fix. Will you pls post here when it happens. Thank you.
 

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There's yet another print vulnerability beyond the August patch
 

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CVE-2021-36958 -- Is this the fix? The talk on the windows update page is rather confusing so just double checking.
 

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No, that is the latest print spooler CVE disclosed after August patching with no fix presently. The work around is still the same. Stop and disable the print spooler service.
 

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Thanks so much for that input. Have everything stopped and disabled -- appreciate your help.
 

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This link was sent to me by another help site - Tech Support Guy- I think it might be the one that precedes the last hack. True?
 

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That link is from July. This is the latest CVE which still remains unpatched even after the August patch release.
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