conficker the next Y2K?

[Boonz]

antivirus could of been updating or something...

 

[delcowizzid]

was fine yesterday didnt have any at all turned it on today and task manager went haywire with heaps of things starting up at once trusty old superantispyware ridded me of the little buggas but it took a while as they were causing it to crash but i got them in the end.some had cloned themselves as svhost and were trying to gain access to the net.

 

[jameswh]

I had a chaotic time with Conficker at work.
It infected our Symantec server (yep, go figure), which is also our DNS server. So, people had an awfully hard time resolving host names and such, which meant that a lot of network shares were inaccessible. Had to change the DNS addresses on a lot of our servers to a co-lo DNS server that we have in Pitt Street while I stabbed away at Conficker. Wasn't fun at all.
Thankfully, not too many client PCs were infected.

 

[danja]

I had a chaotic time with Conficker at work.
It infected our Symantec server (yep, go figure), which is also our DNS server. So, people had an awfully hard time resolving host names and such, which meant that a lot of network shares were inaccessible. Had to change the DNS addresses on a lot of our servers to a co-lo DNS server that we have in Pitt Street while I stabbed away at Conficker. Wasn't fun at all.
Thankfully, not too many client PCs were infected.

Virtual servers FTW

 

[jameswh]

Virtual servers FTW

You try negotiating that with my boss! It's impossible!
We quite literally have about 30 servers sitting in our server room. It's bloody ridiculous.
You don't want to be around when the air conditioning fails. : \