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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA
Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.
C'mon, this is getting so old ... but I guess that's the really pity, isn't it? Gives cities like Munich the last laugh.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Bringing down the DMV may be the best use anyone's ever found for a virus.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
We discovered we got hit when our Sonicwall connections hit the limit every 10 minutes. It took us two tries to clean it all up.
And who was it who brought it into the office? The CEO. He thought he had a virus but connected to the network anyway. Mod that funny if you will but try being part of our network support team.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
When they find the Linux users who did this I hope they lock them up and throw away the key.
So all someone has to do is dislike Gates and Microsoft, write an Windows virus, and they are automatically considered a Linux user?
Cool.
The unofficial
..they are an "ordinary asshole," as opposed to an asshole "trying to get people to switch to Linux" ?
The unofficial
I wonder if this will eventually become a regular segment, like the weather
I can see it now... a fat bald guy standing in front a colorful map of the US pointing at little cardboard cut outs of 'hax0r' and '0wn3d' talking about an 'outbreak of DDOS across the midwest' and a 'hacker front coming up the eastern seaboard.'
There could also be a five-day patch forecast, and to wrap it all up he could say happy birthday to really old sysadmins and shoutouts to servers with really long uptime.
No problem, Sir. We'll just switch our AI on and squash this thing. Skynet is ready to go live.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
This is unfortunate, as the most entertaining worms/virii are those that contain broken English. Example:
VERY JOKE! See US President and FBI Secrets!
However, to the dismay of many a sys-admin, this worm is not VERY JOKE. Sigh.
So, as a Philadelphia area resident can anyone get me a list of infected business/departments so I can fill the positions of the soon-to-be-fired IT Staff?
Yes - I am partly serious.
Yes obviously Linux will be solely used by hobbyists until there are more Motorola propegation simulators, it makes much more sense now.