

| Subject: | Re: A Bad Week Here at the Bus Depot |
| From: | dr |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:20:16 -0400 |
Glad that things finally worked themselves out. Hope you enjoy your evening! As far as day 6 through 10 go, you DO ACTUALLY have choices. This article sums it up quite well- http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5065940.html > Day 6: We discover the new W32 virus on one of our workstations during a > routine Norton Antivirus scan. It hasn't done any damage yet, so we > install the repair utility and consider ourselves lucky. We try to > install the Microsoft update so that we won't be vulnerable anymore, but > this requires an update to our Windows 2000 O.S. > > Day 7: We install the latest Windows 2000 Service Pack on all of our > computers, so that we won't be vulnerable to W32 again. > > Day 8: Our entire computer network goes down. > > Day 10 (Today): After having spent 2 days dimantling everything and > trying to figure out why our network is working at a > S--N--A--I--L--S-----P--A--C--E, we are almost ready to give up, except > that this is not an option. After a ton of troubleshooting, we had come > to the conclusion that we must have another virus that Norton is not > detecting, as all of the hardware is working properly, and the settings > are right. But we can't find any viruses. Then one of my employees has a > brainstorm - the problem occurred shortly after we updated our Windows > 2000 to the latest service pack. He tries uninstalling the update one > computer at a time, and everything starts working. Thanks, Microsoft!! >
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