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Posted: 9/18/2001 3:01:00 PM EDT
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 3:07:02 PM EDT
[#1]
GB,

You might as well be speaking in binary.  Try telling them that the virus will delete all of their pornography, that should get some attention.  [:P]
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 3:17:54 PM EDT
[#2]
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 3:23:41 PM EDT
[#3]
[size=5]NOOOOO!!!!! Not the Porn!!!!!!!![/size=5]
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 3:26:20 PM EDT
[#4]
here are the details on the virus...

www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Link Posted: 9/18/2001 3:29:18 PM EDT
[#5]
just finished updating my virus software before i came here. this sounds like a nasty little bugger. mmk
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 6:20:15 PM EDT
[#6]
[url]www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected][/url]

If you don't already have Norton on your PC/laptop, go out & get it RIGHT NOW, as Macaffee sucks.
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 6:31:51 PM EDT
[#7]
Avoid Microsoft products like Outlook and IIS and you are practically immune to these things.
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 6:40:20 PM EDT
[#8]
Yeah, that bug is real nasty.  It shut us down for 6 hours today while the IT's waited for an update at McAfee.  It propagated itself into every shared computer on the LAN and "tried" to send a log file of all our systems to some unknown server.  Never seen the IT's get their panties so bunched up before, they didn't like it one bit.
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 6:58:08 PM EDT
[#9]
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[size=4] NINGA is AGNIN BACKWARDS! WHATS GOING ON HERE?[/size=4]

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Link Posted: 9/18/2001 7:12:52 PM EDT
[#10]
Spider's absolutely correct as to getting Norton Anti-Virus NOW if you don't have it already; the sarc.com website is also worth a bookmark.

I'll bill a ton of money this week to clients who use MicroSoft Outlook, who don't regularly update their virus files (a no-brainer), and who open any fvcking attachment that comes in with an e-mail...it's money people would save (not to mention a lot of time down the tubes) if some of them had 1/2 the brain God gave a goose.

hanko  
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 7:20:29 PM EDT
[#11]
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 7:41:19 PM EDT
[#12]
Another virus that attacks Windows machines? Gee, that's a shame...
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 8:05:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
Avoid Microsoft products like Outlook and IIS and you are practically immune to these things.
View Quote

I don't use anti-virus software and I have never been hit (well not via email).  Of course I don't use Outlook and IIS either.  
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 10:18:51 PM EDT
[#14]
Whaddayatalking about new virus, I've been living with her since 1995.

Coincincidentally my girlfriend's name is Nimda too. (no kidding)

Kuiper
Link Posted: 9/18/2001 10:36:22 PM EDT
[#15]
This virus bites.  It is hitting my firewall left and right.  
Link Posted: 9/19/2001 4:29:31 AM EDT
[#16]
Link Posted: 9/19/2001 7:14:22 AM EDT
[#17]
Out of the last 26 hours I've worked 24 because of this damn virus. Got to drive an hour home and sleep for an hour, yippeee.  Going to be a fun day.
Link Posted: 9/19/2001 5:26:28 PM EDT
[#18]
This one really sucks.

I got called at 22:00 local to start checking and patching. Didn't get done till 01:00. Got paged at 07:00 saying that some of the machines to be verified.

Only had one server in my area that was affected. Apparently it got infected before I patched the system. But now... the system has been shut down untill we find a way to clean the system and bring it back to a secure state.

Apparently, an affected system has had a whole bunch of security alterations on it. You can remove the virus, but the system is no longer secure. We were told to just scrub the system and rebuild. I can't accept that (along with other admins). I am on break now to get food, and sleep and think of solutions. I am brain dead right now... I have been on so many conference calls, fielding questions, reassuring others that their data is still there, etc. Man I need a new job.
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