Virus attack hits Vista machines, cripples university networ

[Flash]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=3954&tag=nl.e539

[quote]A massive virus attack has hit the University of Exeter resulting in the entire network being shut down both by the virus and the network staff in an attempt to protect the infrastructure. ...

...According to my source within the university, they are attempting to fix the issues with MS09-050, which details a vulnerability in Windows Vista (including SP1 and SP2), along with Windows Server 2008 (SP1 and SP2), which allows remote code execution. ...

...An internal email from the network security administration has been quoted as saying, “This is what happens when SUS [software update service] admins don’t auto-approve

[mikeb]

I guess the University has money to burn.....fools and someone else's money are easily parted.

mike

ps are not Universities supposed to house intelligent people or is it it just about money now?

[gerry]

Whilst there may be hundreds of intelligent academic staff, and thousands of intelligent students, they don't run the place.

gerry