[dba-Tech] network shortcut issue

[Zimmer, Michael]

Well, our updates are all handled through Symantec, and pushed out by our corporate IS team.  The scans for malware or virus came up with nothing.  I'm at a loss to explain what happened.  (Other than human intervention, which seems unlikely.)

Mike


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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] network shortcut issue

I think I would be doing a deep virus and malware scan on all those machines asap.

Do they have automatic updates turned on?

GK

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Zimmer, Michael <Michael.Zimmer at federalmogul.com> wrote:
> We had a weird problem crop up at work:  We have several PCs running Win 7 that have shortcuts on their desktop to Excel files that are stored on a network drive.  However......this morning, all of those shortcuts were now local copies of the network files!   Somehow the shortcuts "disappeared" and a copy of the actual Excel or Access DB was sitting on the desktop in their place.
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> The PCs are connected to the network via Ethernet and we've had no outages or network hic ups that we know of lately.
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> If it were only one or two shortcuts becoming local files, I'd suspect user error.  However more than 20 on each PC (and each PC being in a different office) tells me that something else happened.
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> Mike
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