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UConn's Residential Network Beat the Worms
From: Phil Rodrigues <Phil.Rodrigues () UCONN EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:06:03 -0400
Hi all,
From August 21-24, 2003 we had 11,500 students return to the residence
halls. 9,100 students registered their computers through NetReg and successfully connected to the campus network and the Internet, mostly on Saturday and Sunday. We automatically scanned and identified 2,500 (27%) of those computers as vulnerable and redirected them to a page where they downloaded and installed the patch. That is 2,500 computers that were patched without staff intervention, and that were not infected with the worm, and that did not generate a support phone-call or visit. We have documented all the steps we took and linked to all of the code we used. If your student population has not yet returned to campus, and you were already using NetReg to register them, you should be able to implement all of these steps we took: http://www.security.uconn.edu/uconn_response.html We are very interested in making this page useful to as many institutions as possible. If you have a specific suggestion or criticism please direct it to me or security () uconn edu. Good luck! Phil ======================================= Philip A. Rodrigues Network Analyst, UITS University of Connecticut email: phil.rodrigues () uconn edu phone: 860.486.3743 fax: 860.486.6580 web: http://www.security.uconn.edu ======================================= ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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