We got nailed with a nasty one today. It is taking our IT guys hours to clean it up. The Trojan Glupteba. It is bad stuff.
my office got hit with a computer virus
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Now there's a visual image. "The body was found, rigor mortis having set in..."
Our IT guys got us cleaned up. They had to use 8 different malware/virus cleaners to do it. Someone in the office clicked on an image and downloaded it. It spread from there. They think it was an email that appeared to be a known contact of ours.
Getting rid of them is difficult, once they get in and start wreaking their havoc. Keeping them out to begin with is always the highest priority.
Last full time job I had, we got hit with ransomware. I’d been trying to talk the owners into buying MalwareBytes but they slow walked it and it cost them $500 in ransom and a PC that was just barely above useless (and two days worth of productivity).
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Time for the focus of ULM to turn towards your IT folks; not saying they’re not competent, they may just be overmatched. If it’s costing the company money, strong executive decisions might be in order.
A steep learning curve is a requirement for IT teams these days, when it comes to fighting hackers/viruses/TH etc.
Good luck.
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Our IT guys have traced it to an image file that got downloaded by someone in our office. My personal belief is that person should be let go. It is costing the company too much money at this point.
Downloading image files on workplace computers from outside non-business entities should be forbidden by any company; it’s just asking for trouble.
And yes, it should be grounds for termination; if it’s in the employment agreement, it definitely is.
Our IT team at the software company I worked for from 2001-2010 knew everything we did on company computers, and several heads rolled for visiting/downloading from sketchy sites (yes, including porn).
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I was watching that show I believe it is called fact or fiction. They said that actually the porn sites are some of the safest sites to go to because they are a target and take the extra steps to keep them that way.
Now we have received emails with attachments from what looked like clients or consultants. Usually these are rather obvious fakes. This could have happened here, but I doubt it.
IT guys had to do a deep clean. Everything is super slow, but will get better. Had to change every password i have ever had.
Still dealing with issues from this. Computers running super slow and they don't know why. I seriously want whoever downloaded the file head on a platter.
What a nightmare. If that happened to me I would be extremely irritable. I can't help but wonder if the person who did it has been identified. I'm guessing he has not enjoyed the last few days waiting to be canned.
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