I am going to have a quiet chat with someone on Monday.
Dana
>Good that the flow has stopped.
>
>If the IT response person is anything like the universities here, there is only
>a co-op student on duty on weekends and I am sure he is overwhelmed, as well as
>lacking any real authority.
>
>I would imagine that someone in authority has permissions to disconnect the
>student's connection at the server level, and failing that, unplug their
>connection at the punch panel in the dorm building. If they are modern, then
>the punch panel will be a switch. They shouldn't have to need access to the
>actual dorm room.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dana
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 8:05 PM
> Subject: is it that hard to identify an ip on a network?
>
>
> I got back to my email to find more copies of the virus. I called them back
> 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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