Is there a new virus out?

[GoingUp]

Our School of business is getting hammered right now.

Anyone hearing or seeing anything about a new virus that seems to be a worm?

 

[bandana163]

Nope.

 

[GoingUp]

Heres the Email that we all got.

There has been an outbreak of some kind of virus on campus, and we in the School of Business have been hit particularly hard.
The result of the infection is that the virus starts trying to infect other computers, and in doing so sends out huge amounts of network traffic.
DoIT detected this outburst at 4:15AM this morning and took steps to wall off Grainger Hall from the rest of campus. The result being that
almost 50 PCs have been what is called "blackholed" by DoIT. These PCs do not have access to the Internet or mail servers. In addition, DoIT
is also blocking a port commonly used by Microsoft machines to communicate with one another. PCs within Grainger may also have difficulty
in accessing file and print servers.
As of 11:00AM, no one on campus knows what this virus is or how to get rid of it. I have worked on one particular machine for most the morning. It is still infected and Norton Antivirus does not detect anything wrong with the machine.
I'll send out more email as soon as I know what is going on.

 

[Schadenfroh]

keep your machines updated with windows update and you wont have this problem (my school got pwned by blaster because they did not keep the machines up to date)

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
keep your machines updated with windows update and you wont have this problem (my school got pwned by blaster because they did not keep the machines up to date)

yea, most schools dont. It looks like the new variant of the korgo virus...

 

[bandana163]

Isn't korgo months old?

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Heres the Email that we all got.

There has been an outbreak of some kind of virus on campus, and we in the School of Business have been hit particularly hard.
The result of the infection is that the virus starts trying to infect other computers, and in doing so sends out huge amounts of network traffic.
DoIT detected this outburst at 4:15AM this morning and took steps to wall off Grainger Hall from the rest of campus. The result being that
almost 50 PCs have been what is called "blackholed" by DoIT. These PCs do not have access to the Internet or mail servers. In addition, DoIT
is also blocking a port commonly used by Microsoft machines to communicate with one another. PCs within Grainger may also have difficulty
in accessing file and print servers.
As of 11:00AM, no one on campus knows what this virus is or how to get rid of it. I have worked on one particular machine for most the morning. It is still infected and Norton Antivirus does not detect anything wrong with the machine.
I'll send out more email as soon as I know what is going on.

that sounds like serious. i'm on UW Techpartners mailing list and there's nothing about this at all today. it might have started in one of Grainger's computers and have not spread campus-wide. cause those Techpartners will surely scream very loudly whenever any of their computers got something from the other part of campus

 

[cronos]

i have to correct myself. apparently there was a report on unusual traffic from some IP #s in the business school since this morning. most of the IP adresses have been blackholed to prevent outbreak to other parts of campus.

well good luck.

 

[GoingUp]

well its not the korgo virus... any other ideas?

 

[Ogg]

Its a new virus named Phocas!!!!!:shocked:

To prevent infection BAN it!!!!!

Please