Things I've never heard said:

"Oh dear the white boards crashed"

"I can't log on to the white board"

"This chinagraphs slow today" :O

God that made me chortle, thanks Hinecap, a literary masterpiece! :D

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

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...

Now that made me chuckle after a particularly long week.

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.

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 !!!:=

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!!!

What do you expect when a certain chimp tries to sync his PDA with his outlook account!!! Pay peanuts get muppets :mad:

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

You mean email your Outlook diary, address book, emails home

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.

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 !! :}

So, are all the ships sitting outside the harbour flying yellow quarantine flags? :}:}

How's Daring getting on? :}

Don't know, tried emailing her but no reply.

The torygraph named names today. Looking at the Microsoft website the patch was released 3 months ago!

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.

• 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,

• 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.

Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. :\

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?

Whats all the fuss about?
 

Dont know why you're all bitchin', its been bliss without the damned things.

It's an admin system so there has been no effect to the operational output :ooh:

Its an admin sytem that lets us access BOCS derr!!!

Talk is of fingers from on high pointing at the future home of all RAF AT as the possible trigger for the virus infection. Ooooh err, missus. :eek: