US Marshals and FBI hit by virus
THE FBI and the US Marshals had to partially shut down their networks yesterday after they were hit by a computer virus.
According to the AP, the agencies' computer problems began Thursday morning, while the FBI began experiencing similar problems earlier. It was decided to save the main US Justice department network from potential infection by disconnecting the US Marshals' systems.
Various sources say that the virus might be the Neeris worm and that the problem has likely been caused by the US Marshals Service running backlevel antivirus software, Trend Micro's OfficeScan version 5.0, and not applying patches to its computers.
Trend Micro says protection against the Neeris malware has been in OfficeScan ever since version 8. The current version is 10, but for some reason the US Marshals have not upgraded the software.
It was not as if they were short of a few dollars more. The silly federal coppers had paid for the upgrades, but simply had not installed them. µ
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This is another nail in the coffin for the push method of virus signatures, solutions like cloud based AV's where the PC is kept constantly up to date with threat information is certainly the way forward, especially products like Panda cloud and the super quick Prevx. I dont think this event should put too much blame on the victims - just the security industry.
The problem with this is if the Internet connection gets cut off even for a fraction of a second and a virus is trying to get in from a USB drive or something... you have no chance.
Further evidence that you can never WIN using Micr0$ucks products, but you are certain to LOSE.
I would agree with dogg 2 years ago , but given that the most damaging ( financially and data ) virus' are now Internet orientated, no Internet connection= limited threat. It would be interesting to known what the virus infection was?