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Reply #23

dvdiva — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:10:54 GMT

As a mac user I just smile when I hear about yet another windows worm. Some days I forget to turn on the firewall at all. For servers I could imagine using Netbsd or some other bsd variant. As for worms, I haven't seen a native OS X virus yet but macs are a much smaller target. I guess I'll have to wait for the x86 macs to come out before I'll have to worry too much.

Reply #22

Sandy K — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:35:51 GMT

Well, my husband spent 10 hours on the phone at work today trying to get things back up and running. It did hit General Motors also......It is coming thru the routers......... People do not shut their computers off at night therefore, missed the Windows Update notice that flashes in their tray. You are right four4me......Microsoft was on it this morning with the patches...............

Reply #21

four4me — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:09:49 GMT

why not due the recomended thing and go to microsoft networks critical updates and get the fix and patch and or whatever.

Reply #20

konane — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:56:01 GMT

Norton was what I got with my first computer and found it was unfriendly and problematic. The only way I could fully get rid of it and its crumbs was do a complete hard drive format and start over.Used Trend Micro's House Call free virus scan and cleaning for about 3 years until going to XP then downloaded a trial version of their PC-Cillin which is equal to Norton with automatic updates sometimes several times a day depending on the threat.I'm with Sandy, I won't have anything whatsoever to do... [ More ]

Reply #19

Badger — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:18:29 GMT

Ditto. I've never had a problem with Norton. And FWIW, MS did seem to jump on this thing...My AUto Update downloaded Security patches first thing this morning. And actually, worm is the name that should be used for the programmers of these things....it's more appropriate.

Reply #18

SirMetro — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:35 GMT

Not sure if anyone noticed the news...but late evening reports I heard (have not followed up on it) was that the worm took out computers at CNN, WSB (atlanta based news station, TV Radio) and even hit the White House. But that was late yesterday evening.Sir Metro

Reply #17

LottoVantage — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:54:46 GMT

I use Norton with no problems, I really like it. I never had any problems with it blocking anything that I didn't want blocked, although their firewall tweaking is a bit tedious. They are always very timely with virus updates -- as evidenced by the worm block that they had ready for download last night. I had no worm worries at all today. I wish the same thing could be said of my data center this morning!ToddLottoVantage

Reply #16

Todd — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:52:20 GMT

By the way, I use Windows 2003 on all LP servers, in case anyone is wondering.

Reply #15

Todd — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:51:49 GMT

Sandy, you're absolutely correct about the worm and how it works. It attacks a Win2000 server, and then once inside, it can spread to any Microsoft box.Please be assured that the Lottery Post servers are, and have been, secure from the worm. The LP servers were never infected at all.The data center sent me an e-mail early this afternoon saying that we should expect the network to go down for another 20 minutes, so that was the second outage, and it was expected. I think they may be dealing... [ More ]

Reply #14

sagan — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:47:55 GMT

i have XP and nortonhave had no problem with either

Reply #13

CalifDude — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:31:34 GMT

My son-in-law works in computer support with a large, national, financial firm. When they heard about the problem a couple of days ago, they installed the patches. I don't know how long it took, but they were not hit by the worm because they vaccinated all their computers first. And, yes, it was the Windows 2000 OS that was the target.

Reply #12

Sandy K — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:07:12 GMT

My husband was saying last night that it can affect XP if one of the computers didn't change over to XP....it comes in on Windows 2000 but then it spreads thru the network to all Windows even XP......curious to see what he has to say when he comes home today.I think the home computers running XP are safe...........but company wide if you got one Windows 2000 on the computers, it can spread to all XP....that is what he was explaining to me last night. Now he has 80 Global computer sites.......if... [ More ]

Reply #11

KyMystikal — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:59:14 GMT

Well I thank the virus for getting me off work early yesterday, lol. We couldn't do anything because of the virus. I never really knew before how much of computers vital to a auto assembly line that is done manually. Around Christmas time their talking about installing robots to weld.

Reply #10

Chewie — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:57:15 GMT

From what I understand, it only impacts Windows 2000 - clients and servers. If you have XP, not a problem. Win2000 is still DOS based, and that is why it was hit so badly. All of the XP machines at work escaped the problem. All the WIn2000 were burned; the main damage was the slowdown on the Win2000 servers. The servers don't actually go down, but by the time the connection is made, the time-out kicks you off. I also understand the fix-patch takes a long time to install, and has to be done on ea... [ More ]

Reply #9

monty — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:44:06 GMT

I like everyone else, who enjoys coming to Lottery post abd getting our feed of the night before, was aslo disapointed that the site is down, hoever being in the business were computors are used 24/7 to run our business, going down gives you that rush, what the heck is wrong. I personally use Fredom/Sympatico by MSN in our area, with no problems, We use Norton within our company, no problems. That being said I hope that some one was lucky last nite in your chosen lottery, unfortunatly I am stil... [ More ]

Reply #8

pacattack05 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:25:27 GMT

Seems the worm is still in the system considering just about 5 minutes ago I couldn't log in again. What is the gain for these people who do this? Just to annoy

Reply #7

Todd — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:02:46 GMT

Hmm...I use Norton with no problems, I really like it. I never had any problems with it blocking anything that I didn't want blocked, although their firewall tweaking is a bit tedious. They are always very timely with virus updates -- as evidenced by the worm block that they had ready for download last night. I had no worm worries at all today. I wish the same thing could be said of my data center this morning

Reply #6

pacattack05 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:33:41 GMT

When I bought my computer, I installed Norton, only to find out, I couldn't purchase anything online. This realization only came about after a 3 hour ordeal with a Compaq CSR.Finally a specialist was put on the phone, and he told me it might be Norton, and that there was too much security. He also stated that if I want to purchase online I would have to remove it. Sure enough it worked.I probably could have just lowered the security settings, but was so fed up after 3 hours, I didn't care.... [ More ]

Reply #5

Chewie — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:30:29 GMT

All I know is that when I couldn't get my lotto feed from Todd at 6:30 am I went into withdrawl!I didn't recover until it was back up.

Reply #4

undress — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:27:58 GMT

Norton is junk, It attaches to everything and cause more problems than anything.McAfee here also Sandy. We had problems with the Tojan Horse at our offices.

Reply #3

Sandy K — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:21:22 GMT

Nope, I hate anything to do with Norton.........2 previous computers I had trouble with it.....my sister just said she is having trouble.....told her to delete the Norton and sure enough she is fine now.......too many conflicts with it.........she uses McAfee now......I just use the ADV and I have not any trouble with it for 4 years now......I believe my husband's customers use McAfee also now.

Reply #2

Todd — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:35:21 GMT

Norton gave me an auto download last night, to guard against the worm. I'm guessing you don't use Norton Internet Security

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Sandy K — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:24:33 GMT

Todd, my husband's Blackberry was beeping all night last night......he has globally 80 some plant computers to supervise.......this worm is something else........he went to work this morning not knowing what to expect........So I suspect the worm is the culprit..........and all the computers are running Windows XP. I have not talked to him yet this morning.....all he said when he left the house is that is going to be a bad day ..................I just went to my virus website to see if there w... [ More ]

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Todd — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:09:00 GMT

I have no idea why the site was down all this morning, because I haven't gotten an explanation from the data center yet.All I know is that the entire network was down in the data center this morning, and it just came back up.I am guessing that it had something to do with the Internet Worm that was reported all over the news yesterday.Hopefully things stay up the rest of the day.