[dba-Tech] Major site crash

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Oct 30 08:17:17 CDT 2009


What was the fix?

R 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:54 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Major site crash

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 

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