Virus, worms and trojans … Oh my!

July 28, 2004

First thing this morning when I got to work I have a virus on my File Server. No problem Symantec caught it. It was some variant of the randex worm. It was in the home directories of two user who use the same workstation. Somehow, these jokers had the antivrus disabled. What fun. Not a very sophisticated worm and was easily removed. Only goes to show again how the users are the weakest link in security.
Soon, we are going to have to migrate from Symantec to TrendMicro. Corporate mandate. I’m sure TrendMicro makes a quality product, but I am very frustrated that I have to implement a new solution and go through the associated learning curve, just cause someone at the home office gets good swag from TrendMicro. Especially when we have a solid set up now. No wonder Dilbert is so popular.