Vinzalf

Anyone get infected by this one?

Where I work got hit with this one. I work at a hospital. Almost all of the 15,000 computer systems were compromised.

W32.Zotob.A

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elmerfudd

Damn looks like a pain in the ass to remove. That's a neat hosts file trick it does, so they can't get AV updates to remove it

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orbitz

There's a few out there that use that method to keep you away from the needed sites to get it fixed. Course the really good ones just disable your anti virus and you wonder if it's Norton actiing up again or an actual virus causing the issue (yeah I don't have much faith in NAV but it's what customers seem to buy and install).

rs_al

Why is the automatic hardware installation service hooked up to the internet anyway? This is like tying your phone line to your gas oven. You're just asking for trouble.

TEMM

Probably meant to be able to download new drivers off the interweb.

Vinzalf

I am sure you meant the intarweb.

Well they found out what happened. Someone brought their laptop home and got it infected. They came back and connected to the network here, behind the firewall.
It seemed to stop spreading as fast when the servers were patched.

And that, as they say, is that.

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SuperSteve

I work at a school (where I am also attending highschool) and we have achieved a 1 to 1 student/computer ratio with IBM Thinkpads that are issued to the students, that they can keep at the end of their four years attending school here. I have never realized how many morons out there who are going to get infected with viruses because they have no idea what they are doing. The biggest problem is, it is the Computer teacher/Network Administrator and me who get to do damage control. I hope like hell this school year goes better than last. A little off topic, but still related because I don't want to have to fix this type of thing.