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« on: August 12, 2003, 04:58:55 pm » |
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Our system is down, Outlook in particular, due to the worm attack. Grrr! That means: No calendaring, no email, no printing. I should be all caught up on filing in no time. At least we can get out to the internet. Stupid @#$%*& hackers!
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blufire21
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2003, 07:14:43 pm » |
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Yup. One of our guys sent out an email about this puppy today. Make note, I've posted what he wrote: Just a quick update to let everyone know that a new mail worm has been spreading thru the internet at a rapid pace and in turn generating a lot of press. The e-mail arrives in the form of admin@yourdomain. The body reads that your email address is getting ready to expire please click here for details. It is usually in the form of a .zip file. The header information is listed below. From: Admin (ADMIN@your_domain) Subject: your account %user% Importance: High Please do not open the .zip and exercise caution when opening files that appear to be suspicious. Edited by blufire21 on 12/08/03 07:15 PM. |
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raindance
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2003, 11:01:27 pm » |
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Yes, wormie turned up on our system today. Fortunately we have a quarantine facility, which indicates that we shouldn't open those emails, so it's easy to remove the offending creatures.
And there are people who think it's fun to invent these things?
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JessW
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« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2003, 09:29:48 am » |
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yep, outlook et al down. Don't know if it is ze vorm but am thoroughly miffed anyway.
I reckon we ought to send cyber-glares at the blue meanies who spread these things.
Jess
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bethalize
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« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2003, 10:15:19 am » |
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I haven't had that one today, but I ran an online virus scan on my already protected computer and there are all sorts of things that Free AVG didn't pick up! I am devestated! I feel - violated. There was a backdoor trojan on my computer and I am SO CROSS that in weeks of scanning it wasn't picked up. Wait until I get hold of someone at Grisoft!
Now I have to find a different antivirus product.
Bethalize
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JessW
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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2003, 10:21:47 am » |
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what about "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp". This is the code put up on our intranet for some sort of megaurgent patch dohicky (sp?).
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chris68
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2003, 01:34:25 pm » |
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DH's office got it yesterday and what a mess trying to clean that one. There systems are so wacky it's tough to clean it really easily. Apparently all computers have one common password and if 10 people in two different buildings are trying to reboot the computer not knowing the virus was not cleaned off yet, it causes all kinds of lockup problems and trying to reboot and take the virus off from the IS Department gets difficult. DH says they should do this from one computer, shut everyone off the computer til its cleaned and then let everyone know what the new password is and go from there, but they didn't and it took them most of the day yesterday to get computers cleaned up and operational with that patch. Sheesh! We (knock on wood) haven't gotten it yet. Chris68
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