[NTLUG:Discuss] What is love?

[Matt Moore]

LinuxGrl wrote:
> The virus then starts affecting data files. Files associated with Web
> development, including ".js" and ".css" files, will be overwritten with a
> file in the VisualBasic programming language. The original file is deleted.
> It also goes after multimedia files, affecting JPEGs and MP3s. Again, it
> deletes the original file and overwrites it with a VisualBasic file with a
> similar name.

And, the worst part about this..this aspect made ANY OS vulnerable to it.
My workplace got hit hard with this yesterday. This worm goes through your
system using your drives as a checklist-meaning if you have any mapped
drives on your system it will go through them as well. We have many
different development projects involving html-js and it wiped ALL of it
out. This included servers with OS's ranging from NT-AIX. Fortunately we
keep good nightly backups and we are now back on track-but anyone who
chose to ignore us and kept most of their development files on their own
system are now learning the hard way why backups are important. (one guy
lost 4 months worth of work)

I have a feeling a lot of people are learning this the hard way after
yesterday-it's unfortunate but hopefully they will be better prepared next
time.

-Matt Moore