[dfwgator]

And if you are a network administrator and you let this worm get through, you should start looking for another job.

[Centurion2000]

The wonderful little bastard also seems to like the tftp service as a weak port.

We're covered at our location, but our morthship just got nailed with this thing a few hours ago. Thank God for firewalls.

-Proud firewall admin watching the lava break against my defenses.

[Bikers4Bush]

Maybe, maybe not. It's possible that it's being introduced from laptops that have been used offsite and then brought back to docking stations.

It's easy to tell folks to makes sure they load updates of virus scan programs, getting them to comply is another story.

[Jack Black]

And if you are a network administrator and you let this worm get through, you should start looking for another job.

Hey, it's not that easy. One guy has over 100 Windows servers. He's installed the patch on all of them already buy not rebooted them all to have it take effect. Rebooting things ends services that may be mission critical. He's had about 2 weeks to take care of 100 servers and maybe 1000 workstations. Having done all that the network is still somewhat vulnerable to people docking inside the firewall who are infected. Really bad virus's are not simple to defeat. I therefore disagree with you assertion that the mere infection of a computer is a reasonable cause for termination of the sysadmin responsible for it.

[Jack Black]

And if you are a network administrator and you let this worm get through, you should start looking for another job.

Hey, it's not that easy. One guy has over 100 Windows servers. He's installed the patch on all of them already buy not rebooted them all to have it take effect. Rebooting things ends services that may be mission critical. He's had about 2 weeks to take care of 100 servers and maybe 1000 workstations. Having done all that the network is still somewhat vulnerable to people docking inside the firewall who are infected. Really bad virus's are not simple to defeat. I therefore disagree with you assertion that the mere infection of a computer is a reasonable cause for termination of the sysadmin responsible for it.

[FourPeas]

That's a bit harsh. All it takes is for an employee to take their laptop home, connect it to the net, get the virus and then bring the virus in-house.

Mr. FourPeas is in IT security for a Fortune 500 company. Hubby is now trying to cleanse a network at a remote location where no one seems to take it seriously. He actually is having to run a script to shut down various computers every ten minutes because the yahoos at the remote keep turning them back on even through they're known to be infected.