Brace yourself

[EXreaction]

I didn't try removing them from the desktops, but on my laptop I could just show the protected OS files and they were listed on the flash drive and could just be deleted.

[Coolzer]

yeah mine sometimes makes copies of the folders and disguise them as an .exe. so if you don't have extensions enabled you get hit with the virus. If you right click the drive you get like strange gibberish...eg:i^jkh

[KarmaKiller]

Quote:

Security experts have made a breakthrough in their five-month battle against the Conficker worm, with the discovery that the malware leaves a fingerprint on infected machines that is easy to detect using a variety of off-the-shelf network scanners.

The finding means that, for the first time, administrators around the world have easy-to-use tools to positively identify machines on their networks that are contaminated by the worm. As of mid-Monday, signatures will be available for at least half a dozen network scanning programs, including the open-source Nmap, McAfee's Foundstone Enterprise and Nessus, made by Tenable Network Security.

Busted! Conficker's tell-tale heart uncovered • The Register

[GroundZero3]

Excellent thanks for the update!

[KarmaKiller]

I figured it would help someone.

[EXreaction]

I don't get what their battle was against the worm. I mean, wasn't this worm targeting something that was already patched over a year ago now? I can see the problem with zero day exploits, but when you've got machines that have not been patched for months it may be time to start rethinking your system policies.

[GroundZero3]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

I have worked for three different school divisions trust me I know all to well

The biggest problem and this goes for any environment with software loads, you don't know how those new updates will effect all your software. The man power alone to test how the update will affect installed (espically when ms was releasing them every other week) would be virtually impossible.

Please reread above, on top of a lot of people having warez copy of windows and not being able to update (last time I checked). Deploying updates to a large scale network isn't as easy as it sounds. Yes WSUS does work but it can cause some problems and some network admins are lazy.

[EXreaction]

Yes, but still, 6 months should be enough time to patch a critical security vulnerability.

Those running illegal copies who can not update will just have to deal with it themselves.

It's a hell of a lot more work to fix a security issue after you've been attacked than it is to install a patch to prevent it.

[GroundZero3]

Let me give you an example

We have several images made for different models, each image can have up 25+ different type of software installed. So if we have 6 different models of images with different software you do the math. The time it takes to test out each image with all the software to see how it reacts to an update is no easy task. The man power alone is staggering, you just don't go out there and install updates and when something breaks you don't go "oopsie my bad"

[Taxmancometh]

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You know, those malware statistics are unbelievable! I have not gotten a single virus in a looong time. Cross fingers. I feel sorry for the TPB pirates though... NAAA

I use some decent malware protection, my brain...