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Thread ID: 105879 2009-12-17 04:34:00 The Morons in charge of the DHB IT pctek (84) PC World Chat
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840505 2009-12-17 04:34:00 www.stuff.co.nz pctek (84)
840506 2009-12-17 04:36:00 I'm willing to bet their antivirus "solution" was either Norton or McAfee. pcuser42 (130)
840507 2009-12-17 04:43:00 Unbelievable, they must be a cross between the Keystone Kops and The Muppets. KarameaDave (15222)
840508 2009-12-17 04:45:00 No worry, Ralph will mobilise a squad of dancing paperclips and joy will spread through the land.

Or not.
R2x1 (4628)
840509 2009-12-17 04:46:00 It doesnt really state whether or not the infection was intentionally or not, either way though that sucks. A government funded organisation should easily have this sort of thing covered hueybot3000 (3646)
840510 2009-12-17 04:48:00 I'm willing to bet their antivirus "solution" was either Norton or McAfee.

I know the DHB here in Northland use Trend :yuck:
CYaBro (73)
840511 2009-12-17 05:32:00 Fail!

That said, I've met the guy who's at the *very* top of ADHB's IT, the man *knows* his stuff like you wouldn't believe, and it can't be easy managing a network of tens of thousands of computers... Then again that's why they get the big salaries :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
840512 2009-12-17 07:42:00 Fail!

That said, I've met the guy who's at the *very* top of ADHB's IT, the man *knows* his stuff like you wouldn't believe, and it can't be easy managing a network of tens of thousands of computers... Then again that's why they get the big salaries :D

I was discussing this very story with a colleague in Auckland today - we had an outbreak of it at work a few months back, and it was very messy to clean up. Problem seems to be the attack vector, as it will often use USB keys. You can tell people that ICT policy forbids the use of personal USB devices, but it's hard to enforce. And because most keyboards and mice are USB, locking down ports with Group Policy etc doesn't work.

Removing one infection is pretty straight-forward; removing from 120 workstations and a few servers was a bit more difficult :p
nofam (9009)
840513 2009-12-17 09:29:00 "We brought in Microsoft and have been working with them through the night."

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pablo d (15490)
840514 2009-12-17 10:20:00 I'm willing to bet their antivirus "solution" was either Norton or McAfee.

Safer not to risk your money "She said the Waikato DHB used Computer Associates eTrust security software"
PaulD (232)
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