up to say that I was now forwarding everything back to them; they tell me
that the thing is that a student has left an infected computer online and
gone for the weekend. Apparently security cannot or will not let the IT
people into this room, and they can't isolate it short of unplugging the
entire student network. More understandable but still atrocious planning.
With the publicity this worm has received someone in IT with enough
authority to overrule security should have been available. The explanation
also smells a little fishy. Your average student does not have houseoffusion
and local telecommunications companies in their address book. Possible, but
unlikely; seems more like a plausible excuse to make me go away. What I have
seen of this guy's address book smells of IT.
Anyway... I did forward their abuse desk a bunch more of these things and I
note that the flow has now stopped. Either the volume of forwarded email
helped them take the issue seriously or the student in question got back and
found a big message taped to his door :)
ah... peace. I had a few other scattered people send me this virus
(including one guy in vietnam?) but on nowhere near the same scale.
Dana
> Depends on the facilities in place. It can take anywhere from 20 seconds (15 to log in, 5 to search and destroy) when there are facilites such as NetReg or CampusManager, to half a day on a wide open network with managed switches, to forever on a network with unmanged hubs (yes, they still exist).
>
> Jochem
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