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I got blasted today I formatted the Red Hat hard drive on the machine they gave me at work today - installed XP and went to a meeting. We got interrupted in the meeting for lunch, and resumed the meeting after lunch. After our meeting finished, I was pleasantly surprised to see XP had finished installing (I stopped by every-so-often to kick it into gear again). Later this afternoon - about 10 minutes ago - the Network Admin came by to yell at me for getting blasted. I didn't even do anything but install XP and this damn little virus got me. And I was so proud for not getting it at home. Lesson learned? Every time you install XP, unplug it from the network and install a firewall before going further. Posted in General at Aug 19 2003, 03:49:05 PM MDT 3 Comments

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Why was he yelling at you? The only way you could get infected is that they have port 135 open or another machine in the network was already infected! This isn't you fault! It is HIS department that dropped the ball. You just expected your network system group to somewhat competent! God help them, if they expect users to manage network security. This should be handled at the corporate firewall. Why are they making you install Windows XP? They should be doing this, so this problem wouldn't happen! They should have either a Ghost-like image file that restores you PC or patch using LanDesk, SMS or etc to resolve this problem. This patch has been out for over a month.

I agree with I, Crigley on this one. If your company was affected, then network admin folks need to explain why they dropped the ball!

Posted by Jeff Duska on August 19, 2003 at 04:45 PM MDT #

Yeh, no sh-t. If they would block their firewall properly it would not get to your machine.

Posted by dsuspense on August 19, 2003 at 05:06 PM MDT #

I agree that the Network Admins should've stopped it, but I did give our Admin (she) a bad rap in this post. She actually politely came over and told me I had the blaster virus. Some of the guys were analyzing the network and laughing at the fact it was coming from my machine. It was actually a quite humorous situation - not one in which I got ragged on.

Posted by Matt Raible on August 19, 2003 at 05:09 PM MDT #

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