Curing a Corporate Virus Infection

Posted by michael on Sunday September 26, 2004 @03:20AM from the lift-off-and-nuke-the-site-from-orbit dept.

museumpeace writes "Over at Internet Storm Center Deb Hale's 'In search of the bot net' entry for September 25 recounts a grueling hunt for all the .exe's, reg entries and sources for a bot infection of a 60 server corporate network. What a nightmare! The story ends with an indictment of careless users and a suspicion that Ares, one of the sloppier Pirate2Pirate filesharing tools was the original souce of the extensive corruption that eventually even crippled the AV tools. How typical is this sort of grief? [More more frequent than reported, I would expect: the corporate victim demanded anonymity for the story to be told]."

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Re:Confirms my unease with P2P by BandwidthHog · 2004-09-26 04:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Who convinced you that they were legislating *against* spam?

CAN-SPAM: It's not just a horrible backronym.

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Flag on the field!!! by goldspider · 2004-09-26 04:51 · Score: 5, Funny

"Apple Macs and Assorted Linucen

"Making up a new plural case of a word to try to sound cool", on "haxor.dk". That's a 15 yd. penalty and loss of down.

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