losing my access!!!!

[Shadow Realm]

To all of my fellow Viber's, My work will be cutting off our access to the internet as of Sept 1, 2003. This means that I will only be able to chat from home. Unfortunately, I am hardly ever home so you all will be hearing alot less from me. I'm still going to chime in from time to time but it won't be as frequent. We just had a worm virus wipe out our entire network of about 1000 computers between 10 stores and this is how they think they will remedy the situation.Talkto everyone when I can!!!Shadow Realm

[yank dini]

bummer get a SideKick http://www.t-mobile.com/products/overvi ... orSidekick

[yank dini]

they warned us at our bank yesterday and had us check our Symantec Versions. We were all up to date.On that note. did anyone get hit by the w32/lovsan worm on Tue/Wed?That one went worldwide on XP users only no matter if it was home or professional. you only had to be connected to the net to catch it.

[rasermon]

quote:On that note. did anyone get hit by the w32/lovsan worm on Tue/Wed?That one went worldwide on XP users only no matter if it was home or professional. you only had to be connected to the net to catch it.It happen Tue. to us (work), but only made it though our sales dept.I was busy that day removing the (W32.Blaster.Worm) worm from several pc's.Here is a link for the removal tool if you have the virus. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .tool.html

[meathead333]

my pc got hit with the msblast one. took me like 3 days to get it working. it wouldnt let me download certain things from the internet, ie the ms patch. lol. finally i got around it. trust me now on i am keeping my virus defininations updated

[AKLGT]

yeah, my company is moving me back to our main office where i won't have access online. i can only get on at home, which i'm usually never there.

[tfiedler]

A better solution would be to dump MS server operating systems and use something better. Never had a virus, never had a system crash due to any one of the all too common Microsoft flaws, and never will. Boy do I feel for you people that have to work with that crap.

[ColonelPanic]

quote:Boy do I feel for you people that have to work with that crap.I hear ya... Spent all day yesterday cleaning up the after-effects of Blaster infection at work. It's easy enough to fix, compared to last year's Klez outbreak at my company. What can I say, that kind of stuff keeps the Vibe out in the driveway... LOL!It sure feels good to come home to machines running Linux where I don't have to worry about this stuff!

[canadavibegt]

quote:Boy do I feel for you people that have to work with that crap.It sure feels good to come home to machines running Linux where I don't have to worry about this stuff!Not sure where you guys get your info from but several people I know have had nothing but headaches with Linux... They switched back to Microsoft xp.... I have been running ME for 3 years and never had a virus and only crashes were due to other software being loaded on. Even then just minor glitches. friend of mine went over to Linux and he is an avid gamer..... He had to switch back because Linux kept crashing and messing up the games...Must of the problems people encounter are due to their own negligence. Not keeping windows up to date and not keeping virus definitions up to date... not reading the installation instruction prior to installing stuff....Staying with Windows... the pengiun can waddle off somewhere else

[Geo]

*hugs his little computer with thie big "Apple" silhouette on it**also tries to supress the giggling from all this stuff with the Blaster worm*I can't wait till Saturday. Oh this will be so fun to watch when millions of computers start the DOS attack on WindowsUpdate.com.I will laugh, and then I will sleep. Hooray!

[etoop]

Sure they cut off your access... why? because THEY didn't update your systems when Microsoft first WARNED them on July 16th. Everyone has been able to get the patch since then. So I don't feel sorry for any companies. My company also was stupid and didn't update. (They have our XP machines locked so tight that we can't go to windows update). Monday at 4pm we were hit with it. The next day I got in at 7am and patched my machine, ran the sysmantec fix to wipe it out and was running 5 minutes later.About 11:30 the same day one of the IT guys comes over and asks if my computer is rebooting. I informed him that I had fixed it and everyones around me 4 hours earlier. Our IT stafff sucks.... dont get me wrong I work in IT too...but with the development area...not the network. We have hired monkeys to do that part

[msmyer]

I bought a brand new dell computer about 3 months ago and I'm running XP on my computer....Should I download anything to prevent this? I'm more familiar with M.E. and not sure about XP files. Thanks in advance.

[Jahntassa]

Please no OS fighting around here...Linux is not neccesarily better than Windows, nor the other way around. It depends on what you're using it for...I agree though, cutting off access entirely is one of those "blanket solutions" that's just dumb enough to be stupid. I'm thankful to be one of those people that constantly checks Windows Update and LiveUpdate... Though most of the time i'm so bored..it gives me something to do..

[redlava]

I love being behind in the times. Good old Windows ME, people say it is a junk OS but I havent had any problems with it. And it isn't effected by that "blaster" worm. Most of my friends, and my father had it, but I just keep on a rolling.

[ColonelPanic]

quote:Should I download anything to prevent this?msmeyer, ABSOLUTELY! http://www.microsoft.com/security/incid ... aspHaven't installed it on XP machines yet, but the W2K patch is applied easily. Just click on stuff. Also, make sure your virus defs are up to date. Folks, I'd hate to see you become a victim, so if you're on any of the affected systems, PATCH IT NOW!I didn't mean to start any OS war here, I was just stating it's comforting to run something different than the masses, something that script kiddies don't bother to write exploits for. I think the Mac gurus can back me up on that one. As for the corporate entities, I don't feel sorry for them either. First there was slammer, then there was the blaster... Sysadmins should be more vigilant about patching ANY os, server-side and on the desktop, whether it be Windows, Linux, Unix, etc... Anything can be vulnerable, and it is becoming increasingly so these days. Most of the horrid events they gripe about could have easily been prevented. You CAN'T place blame on your employees that go out to Yahoo or whatever on their lunch break... Have a great weekend folks, and happy patching! Hope the net stays up!

[millster]

quote:...I think the Mac gurus can back me up on that one... I use XP and 2K as well. It's a simple patch to install, if you have auto-update enabled (it usually is by default) it prompts you with new updates and all you have to do is tell it to install. Otherwise, just go to Windows update and it's automatically selected as a critical update, just click on review and install updates. It's such a simple concept, I can't believe all the companies that get caught by these things. Any trained IT professional should know better than to sit back and take it easy. Being proactive is the only way to go no matter what operating system you use!OK, my rant is over.

[yank dini]

quote:On that note. did anyone get hit by the w32/lovsan worm on Tue/Wed?That one went worldwide on XP users only no matter if it was home or professional. you only had to be connected to the net to catch it.It happen Tue. to us (work), but only made it though our sales dept.I was busy that day removing the (W32.Blaster.Worm) worm from several pc's.Here is a link for the removal tool if you have the virus. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .tool.html naw MCAFEE Security saved my (removed) I didn't even know it happended till the next day. I actually installed a DVD +RW/-RW drive about an hour or so after it all happended so I was fine