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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!!
>