RAF & Navy attacked by Virus
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I was told, quite seriously and by a very po-faced SNCO RAFP that it got in 'through the phone lines'.
Well f*** my old boots - I hadn't expected it to come in over the fence.
Well f*** my old boots - I hadn't expected it to come in over the fence.
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Some gen on the BBC, I don't know if they are reporting information on the same worm though.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Three million hit by Windows worm
Aerials
BBC NEWS | Technology | Three million hit by Windows worm
Aerials
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Gentlemen, place your bets
Potential 'big badass botnet' spreading fast | Tech News on ZDNet
...and from earlier,
London hospitals hit by computer virus
BBC NEWS | England | London | Computer virus affects hospitals
...infected by a variant of the Mytob worm.
And no, I have no info. Just big picture stuff. Rumour, etc...
...and from earlier,
London hospitals hit by computer virus
BBC NEWS | England | London | Computer virus affects hospitals
...infected by a variant of the Mytob worm.
And no, I have no info. Just big picture stuff. Rumour, etc...
This chinagraphs slow today
Hopefully, it shouldn't affect home PCs - speaking to CIS Eng (or whatever they are called this week) it only affects networks. Apparently even IBM has been infected, so it's not just our delapidated systems.
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Virus!!
I believe the virus name is EDS. Apparently, it completely fooked up the NHS system a few years ago but we still employed the same company to do dii !!!
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Sunday Times now quoting 24 RAF bases (that must be all of them!!) and 75% of Navy ships infected.
Virus ‘sends RAF e-mails to Russia’ - Times Online
At my particular unit PC's been down all week with no forecast of getting back online for some time. Deep Joy!!!
Virus ‘sends RAF e-mails to Russia’ - Times Online
At my particular unit PC's been down all week with no forecast of getting back online for some time. Deep Joy!!!
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Times reckons all emails going to some Russian server, damn I hope Olgy is taking note of the info I need for the London to Brighton ride in June and he is going toturn up at the training rides
Cake! party! and arse spring to mind, we still have no PC's to log in to! only been a week
Cake! party! and arse spring to mind, we still have no PC's to log in to! only been a week
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Synch your PDA to your home PC.
Email you files back to work?
No, you would never get a plod doing that, would you?
erum, that is exactly what one plod told me he did.
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Just a thought will this affect this months pay? I'm sure JPA's virus software is excellent and they could not possibly use this as an excuse not to pay people !! 
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Computer virus hits navy e-mails....... An MoD spokesman said:... "Action was immediately taken to isolate the infected systems
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Viruses, software patches & stuff
Wader2 says
I hate to defend the UK MoD ICT folks on this, but "to patch or not to patch" is actually quite a hard call to make.
The only way to avoid this kind of nasty is to not allow any desktop Internet access, block all the USB port usage, fit CD drives only to 'special' machines, and filter the email all to hell. Then the users bitch the system is unusable for all the things they want to do.
Which do you want: usability or security?
the patch was released 3 months ago!
- Do you just apply patches as soon as Microsoft, and Adobe, and Sun (for Java), and ... release them, and expect that they will fix the advertised problem, and hope like heck they won't break anything in your highly individualized cr@p-pile of software including stuff so ancient and British that nobody in the good ole Yew Ess of Ay has ever heard of it,
or
- Do you carefully test all the patches to make sure they don't accidentally break anything else, and run the risk of a vulnerability being exploited while you're testing the patch.
The only way to avoid this kind of nasty is to not allow any desktop Internet access, block all the USB port usage, fit CD drives only to 'special' machines, and filter the email all to hell. Then the users bitch the system is unusable for all the things they want to do.
Which do you want: usability or security?
