Zotob Virus
The company I work for is a healthcare firm. Needless to say how important it is to have a robust and reliable IT backbone. All was well until Aug 15th, when we realized that 840 of our workstations were affected by this nasty worm called “Zotob”. The worm causes the computer to spontaneously reboot.
The Zotob worm started spreading on August 14, but mainly affected systems running Windows 2000. If you are running Windows 2000 based workstation, you maybe at risk. Is your Windows 2000 machine spontaneously rebooting? Are you having trouble with login?? If you have not experienced any symptoms you still need to visit Windows Update to obtain the patch. To get the hotfix from microsoft click here.
Zotob suspects were finally arrested in Turkey and Morocco. For more information, click here
Ashwin Said,
September 3, 2005 @ 9:59 pm
Majority of the viruses are usually spread within a company’s network by people who’ve been told COUNTLESS times not to click on random links and attachments that they receive in their emails.
If they didn’t expect a certain document/link then they shouldn’t try to open it. But people seem to never learn.
It’s the Homer Syndrome; just gotta make sure that it REALLY is harmful to click on something each time it comes around.