My office got attacked by a worm last Thursday, but we are just realizing it today. Can you imagine the damage it's been able to do in that time. It looks like this work just likes replicating itself. It sends 5 emails out every 30 seconds from an infected computer...attempting to infect another computer. What looks like happened here was someone's Norton failed (or was attacked by the worm) and after the failure, Norton was unable to detect any suspicious activity.
Due to the amount of traffic being sent via the worm, internet access ground to a halt on that PC. We tried uninstalling Norton and reinstalling, but since the worm was still there and taking up most of the internet bandwidth, we couldn't update Norton's Virus definations and therefore it couldn't detect the worm. By the time we had rebooted the computer just one time, the worm had already attacked the fresh installation of Norton and made it inoperable again. Lovely huh?
Can you say format and reinstall? I sooo do not have the time for this either. My workload is already piled high was things that are "top priority".
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