WannaCry Ransomware and MS17-010 Vulnerability

On Friday 12 May 2017 a large ransomware attack dubbed “WannaCry” was launched targeting more than 200,000 computers worldwide, including industries such as banks, hospitals and large telecom compani...
Published May 16, 2017
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May 18, 2017

SMB/CIFS cannot pass through a virtual server with an HTTP Profile on it, so you should be safe.

 

The caution against attaching the iRule to an HTTP virtual server simply reflects the fact that the Stream Profile filter it uses to efficiently scan the data stream for exploit sequences behaves differently when an HTTP Profile is present on the virtual server.