Agent Smith Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Hello All,as some of you may know, I work as part of a support team for a college network. We pride ourselves on being good with our security relating to viruses and such, and during the past 12 months, have only discovered 3 infected machines in a network of nearly 1000, with over 7000 users.Today however, one of the boys in the office made a classic error. He received an email "from" the guy sitting next to him, and duly ran the attachment.Up popped Mshearts. "Why did you send this mail?" he asked. "I didn't" was the reply."Oh S :censored: :censored: :censored: ", or something like that was the next comment.Now the av dats on his machine were less than 24 hours old, but it did not detect it (funnily enough there was already a new dat file which did), the mail had originated in Holland and just happened to spoof the address of the guy sitting next to the receiver in the office, and he had become complacent and simply ran an executable from his mailbox without checking first.We manually update our servers daily for new av dats, and all client machines are set to automatically update from the network when they are logged on.Fortunately this was spotted immediately, so it was unplugged from the network at once and duly cleaned before any damage was done.My Point is this, no matter how good you think your av protection is, ALWAYS exercise caution when receiving emails with attachments on.Regards. Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest northamuk Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Sensible advice !! :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Yes very good advice...our school computers are :censored: :censored: :censored: id say 3 in 5 dont work properly (ie freezing,some random programmes dont work...ect)and im sure besty and blink 182 fan will agree with me on this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 ...our school computers are :censored: :censored: :censored: id say 3 in 5 dont work properly (ie freezing,some random programmes dont work...ect)You Looking for a new Support Team :D :D We may be for hire :P Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Where do u live again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Check my profile :D SE London/North Kent basically.Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Well there's your first problem...unless you wana travell to sunny Newtownards every morning to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 My sixth sense is telling me you may be in the Lancashire area :P Bit far for a quick fix :( Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Well your sixth scence was wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 Ooopppps, bit out!! You are over the water in the Green Isle :D I used to play golf in Killarney once a year if that's any help.Mr. M.At least the fishing should be good :lol: :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 killarney is almost as far away from me as you are away from me right now at this very second! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rebel=UK= Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 i live in Newcastle and i see on your map is a Newcastle in NI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 :offtopic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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