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#1 2003-01-26 10:16 pm
- Tomacorno
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- From: The still point, well, still.
- Registered: 2001-09-27
- Posts: 103
OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Stopped at work this morning and had to pick up a flyer when I signed in. The flyer said that if your system was running MS Win 2k or MS Win XP you could be infected with W32.SQLEXP.WORM and if running either OS DO NOT start computer or attach computer to network until further notice. I wonder if that means I can stay home tomorrow? No, I guess not, because, alas, they have not upgraded my PC yet. 
Disclaimer: This message is merely commenting on current affairs vaguely related to the Apple experience and is not meant to make light of the pain being felt by anyone out there experiencing difficulties due to a worm chewed OS. I have felt your pain 
You know, in the past. 
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#2 2003-01-26 10:46 pm
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Safe, but the walls sure did crumble. All of my machines were fine (Macs, of course), but the line in and out of the university goes through an NT box (plus a firewall!) and they were brought to their knees for several hours. Which translates, of course, to having my machines blocked...time to clean the keyboards, I guess.
Cheers,
ptervin...wondering why
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#3 2003-01-26 10:58 pm
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Wondering because, come to think of it, it wasn't really that bad.
This is only my campus I/O 1.5Mbit line, but it looks fairly normal--unusual for a Saturday/Sunday, perhaps, but similar to what we have each day. It was probably much worse just outside the loop.
I do know that everything stopped for a couple of hours.
Cheers,
ptervin...who should probably stop wondering and just start wandering
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#4 2003-01-26 11:08 pm
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
OK, OK, I really should stop and look before I said anything. Those lines were peaked, weren't they!
I'll go back to sleep now...no, I can't, I have meetings to attend!
Cheers,
ptervin...showing he's not thinking
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#6 2003-01-26 11:23 pm
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
I agree, for a minute I thought that it was two or three different people posting...
Network at my work was brought way down... couldn't do much at the start of the day, and our network was up halfway though, but I couldn't transfer to anybody usefull because their networks were down all day.
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#7 2003-01-27 1:09 am
- NAG
- A witch!
- Royal Wombat
- From: /usr/local/apps/nag
- Registered: 2000-09-22
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Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
[Insert NAG's favorite Marathon Quote Here]
I hate it when the network crashes, it seems to happen everyday were I am.
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#8 2003-01-27 3:37 am
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Wow, you could almost have an entire conversations by yourself.
You know, I was just saying the same thing to myself the other day....
Cheers,
ptervin...babbling on and on and on
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#9 2003-01-27 8:19 am
- Slarty
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- From: MAF. Duh.
- Registered: 2002-08-25
- Posts: 1938
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Aside from being unable to visit a couple of forum sites, it didn't really affect me.
Git off my lawn, ya durn kids!
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#10 2003-01-27 8:32 am
- C. Ives
- We're All Mad Here
- From: Wonderland
- Registered: 2001-03-05
- Posts: 2065
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Aside from being unable to visit a couple of forum sites, it didn't really affect me.
It's always gotta be about you, doesn't it.
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#11 2003-01-27 12:22 pm
Re: OSX! I'm safe (or even Win98. I'm safe)
Aside from being unable to visit a couple of forum sites, it didn't really affect me.
It's always gotta be about you, doesn't it.
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