[NTLUG:Discuss] What is love?

[George E. Lass]

> 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)

In my mind the "worst part" is that this guy will likely continue to be 
employed by your company even though he has effectivly completed no work
in the last 4 months.

George