Universities Taken Offline to Fight Worms, Viruses

chrismg2003 writes "Nationwide universities are opening their doors to new students but closing off their network services. The Blaster worm has caused universities to take drastic actions to protect their campus networks. Universities have gone as far as shutting down their entire resnet network and bringing it back up dorm-by-dorm after each computer has been certified worm-free. The ICMP ping requests alone have brought down my university's resnet multiple times and we are scrambling to clean the worm from all computers before it forces us to follow suit with other universities."

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Why Not Just Require All Students To Use MacIntos

[Walabio]

MacIntoshes are immune to all worms and virii. It is impossible to create virii for System Ten. One can buy a new iBook for less than 1k$. These stupid WinTelLusers have none to blame but themselves for buying crap.