[Swordmaker]

MacDonald said the school's Parent Advisory Council had paid for a computer lab with Macintosh machines, which haven't been affected.

;^)>

[Swordmaker]

MacDonald said the school's Parent Advisory Council had paid for a computer lab with Macintosh machines, which haven't been affected. PING!

Macs are secure Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[MediaMole]

Win32.Krap.b — what an appropriate name.

[Spktyr]

“Noel MacDonald, a Westside parent of an 11-year-old who attends Bayview elementary school, said many computers in his son’s school have been marked with a red dot, signifying that the machine is so old it wouldn’t be able to withstand the anti-virus program.”

So, they’re more than two years old and they’re trying to install McAfee products on them, then? :P

[mkjessup]

**** iSnob PING!!!! ****

[RSmithOpt]

I find it entertaining that the educated 'educators' in an entire school system don't have the combined intelligence to know how to isolate each work station to 'scrub' the virus. Also, I realize there's a little more to it to remove that virus from the server(s), but, shouldn't be that difficult to do it....geeze, no one in the Vancouver school system has an IT degree to help? Oppps. My bad.....24 days and nothing on...looks like a plea to scam more dough to upgrade. Why no AV on the systems to begin with?

I find such news entertaining....better that 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'Lost' combined..... heheheehehe.

[RSmithOpt]

Threat Report Info on This Trojan:

Looks like MS IE (plug-ins) is most susceptible for the trojan which is very malicious but doesn't seem to induce a high security risk:

Snippet and link to article if anyone is interested showing details for the bug:

o Submission received: 16 December 2008, 19:46:39

o Processing time: 5 min 38 sec

o Submitted sample:

+ File MD5: 0xDAD2CCF6919B794797B7E9C484A89A56

+ Filesize: 165,539 bytes

+ Alias:

# Trojan.Packed.NsAnti [Symantec]

# Packed.Win32.Krap.b [Kaspersky Lab]

# Generic PWS.ak [McAfee]

# Mal/Frethog-B [Sophos]

# PWS:Win32/Frethog.AJ [Microsoft]

# Trojan.Crypt.XPACK [Ikarus]

* Summary of the findings:

What's been found:

Downloads/requests other files from Internet. Modifies some system settings that may have negative impact on overall system security state.

Creates a startup registry entry.

Registers a 32-bit in-process server DLL.

Registers a Browser Helper Object (Microsoft's Internet Explorer plugin module).

Contains characteristics of an identified security risk.............

[BobL]

“Mohammad Akif, security and privacy lead at Microsoft Canada...”

And they’re wondering how the problem originated...

[allmost]

It's not a very virulent bug. The incompetence of the 'IT' personnel should be the headline. Some of these machines:

Noel MacDonald, a Westside parent of an 11-year-old who attends Bayview elementary school, said many computers in his son's school have been marked with a red dot, signifying that the machine is so old it wouldn't be able to withstand the anti-virus program.

If they can't afford new PCs I doubt they're going to go with Macs, unless this is an internal 'stunt'.

[AppyPappy]

You don’t need a Mac. Just load Linux.

[ShadowAce]

[fanfan]

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Cue the WinTards.

“But I can build a Windows Pee C for $122.35 from scraps of baling wire and duct tape. And I’ve never had any problems! Windows Rox!”

[Cedar]

Simple solution: just stick with notebook paper and pencil. Never fails.

Old school prevails!

[PAR35]

Mohammad Akif, security and privacy lead at Microsoft Canada