Post by: gunug on August 29, 2003, 05:47:29 AM
We're having quite a time with the W32/Sobig and Nakia (sp?) at workwith the school district and, even though we had to kill our internet because
the firewall was taking too many hits, I was feeling pretty complacent on
the MAC side of things. Then I got a call that 2 iMAC's were turning themselves
on and off in one of our schools! So far I have found no evidence of viral
activities and the whole thing is only bad because one of the machines has
a trashed CD-ROM drive so I'll have to get a new one before I can do too much
software repair!
Post by: Paddy on August 29, 2003, 12:01:06 PM
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...lchia.worm.html
The only virus/worm that may be causing your Macs to have fits would be the Blaster worm - though I've never heard of it causing the behavior you're describing. Usually it causes the Macs to have difficulties accessing the internet etc. - and the solution is to disconnect all the PC's on the same network. The PC's are infected - the Macs aren't.
Post by: ljocampo on August 29, 2003, 02:44:24 PM
This does sound like a school boy's applescript prank 
Post by: gunug on August 31, 2003, 08:13:30 AM
reported that some boy had told a teacher he had done something
and she'd never be able to tell! Other possibility is Foolproof playing
up again. . .to those who don't know Foolproof is a program to restrict
access to things on a MAC that you don't want to be messed with by
the user. . .the price is sometimes it goes a little crazy and locks every
thing up good!
Paddy, our PC's are doing pretty badly, Blaster and Welchia along with
something else! I worked till 10pm on Friday night going around patching
and updating XP workstations and I know some worked yesterday but
I had to help my son on his Eagle project (you have to have two leaders
at any boy scout event. . .especially if it includes power tools)!
