Sasser Worm attacks our compnay

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:22 pm

Got to work today only to discover all of our companies pc's were infected with the Sasser worm:
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5204667 ... g=nefd.top

Finally after about 4 hours, the IS team got pc's working again. The worm causes your pc to reboot and displays a clock that counts down. Once this is displayed, you can't do anything with your pc, not even to reboot it manually.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:36 pm

Man that sucks. Why do people insist on doing this crap and why didn't your IT department have the systems patched.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon May 03, 2004 2:01 pm

As with most companies, they are reactionary instead of proactive in getting updates. I haven’t seen it yet with my home network if it’s been out since Saturday.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Mon May 03, 2004 11:21 pm

I've got my home boxes locked down tight. For the life of me I just can't get over how lazy people are about patching their windows and/or updating their virus definitions.

I just had to remove a boatload of virus files for a customer who bought a system from me. He hadn't updated teh AV even once from the time I sold him the box ( 3 months ago ) and despite recommendations to save all critical data to the back partition, that I made for him, everything had gone into C drive. DOH !

I even make folders for people on the D partition for music, movies, critcal data, MyDox, Favorites and show them how to back up EVERYTHING. Every folder I made for him was empty.

And then of course you get the song and dance about what he needs saved from his fubar'd C drive.

HAHA. No prob, get out your wallet pal.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue May 04, 2004 6:29 pm

You can actually stop the 1 min shutdown countdown ... (at least in WinXP)

Start > Run... > shutdown -a

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Tue May 04, 2004 7:16 pm

yeah i just figured that out 2 nights ago

very handy