[dba-Tech] Major site crash

Hi Jim

Interesting. We have a client running an Win XP 24 hours/day as a terminal server.
Yesterday morning the client complainted that "it is beeping all the time".
The reason was a continous reboot. When booting, this Lenovo publishes two beeps. It reached the XP logo with the running bar and then - after some seconds - reboot.

It has been taken to repair - for a defect disk or some paging file issue - but I will pass this info at once.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 30-10-2009 06:53 >>>
Today was an interesting day.

A call from a small site announced that they could not get any stations
running. Fortunate there was only 7 stations and one server.

The server was running without issue but all stations were just in a
continuous reboot mode. It appears that some kind of virus or malware had
been seeded on each station and it activated at exactly the same time on
each.

I have never seen anything like this before. Vipre was installed on each
station, with full-time protection activated and nothing was announced or
stopped.

Though no data was lost each station had to be re-installed.

Has anyone heard of this before?

Jim