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RE: Blaster Recurrence


From: Jeff McLaughlin <JMclaughlin () springsgov com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:27:48 -0700

Just pull his port at the switch..
Flip the breaker after hours - assuming it only impacts users gone for the
day and logged out.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Pope [mailto:mpope () istop com] 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:11 PM
To: E. Jimmy Allotey; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Blaster Recurrence

Mr. Study-leave should study security while on leave.  Physically 
locking one's office (with no key for others) where a PC is powered on 
and connected to the network is just a tad sub-optimal for network security.

E. Jimmy Allotey wrote:

Thanks to all for your help. I have traced it down to a user who has
been on study leave since the day after the blaster hit and whose office
was locked so the machine could not be disinfected.

Thanks for all the constructive advice and suggestions.

E. Jimmy Allotey
Network & Systems Security Engineer
Tel: +233 24 310 788 



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