City of Norfolk hit with code that takes out nearly 800 PCs

JRViejo · Feb 18, 2010

Malicious code that mysteriously found its way onto an internal virtual print server took out nearly 800 computers used by the city of Norfolk, Virginia, last week.

The code apparently was activated when workers shut down their computers, said Hap Cluff, IT director for the city of Norfolk. "It was triggered by the action of logging off," he said. "

The code nearly wiped out the C drives of the 784 affected computers and essentially deleted the Windows operating system. The contents of the system folders on those machines, normally about 1.5GB in size, shrunk to 500 MB, he said.
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Computerworld Article By Nancy Gohring.

chrisretusn · Feb 18, 2010

YIKES! Now that's every administrators nightmare.

SIR****TMG · Feb 18, 2010

Wow thats bad

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