Originally posted here by slarty
I doubt however that many deaths would result.
Okay - not directly I grant you, since it's unlikely a nuclear power station is going to melt down as a result (although recent news is worrying).

However if it costs a large hospital 10K to clean up then that's 10K not spent on patient care, or a police force not spending money on preventing crime etc. etc. The long term cosnequences could easily be some deaths.

As the Bush administration are much more interested in wealth than wellbeing - economic chaos worries them much more than deaths.
For sure & it's simple cost benefit- This virus costs, in the us alone say $500M - a Reward of $50M to cpature the perp, prosecute & give 10 years in the electric chair - Bingo simple cost/ben case!

Imagine what would have happened if blaster had wiped the hard disc of every infected machine this weekend...
Hehe - there would have been a lot less traffic on my IDS!

Steve

Originally posted here by mark_boyle2002
It's kind of a shocker but we just blocked .pif .wsh .vbs .com and .exe files from being opened through the m$ outlook security doobrie on active directory and all the machines can't run exes from mails. sobig.f came in and hit loads of the machines but it couldn't be run so it was never spread internally.
I'd have to check with my mail server admin, but we were already blocking most, if not all, of those already.

We did a quick check with out mail server Av app provider & found out we were covered.

What about the future.

Mailserver AV updates every hour.
Interneral AV upate daily (all machines) - Mobile users have an update forced upon them as soon as they connect to the internal netowrk.

Steve

<edit> must learn to write english!</edit>