maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoWhat is the worst experience you have ever had involving Viruses/Malware?message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down11
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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoMine is quite tame. I accidentally unleashed the conficker worm on an org. Had to patch about 1000 PCs across Australia to clean it up and that was a royal pain downloading windows updates over dialup. Yes, we were still using dialup in Australia around that time and no we didn’t have wsus either.
minus-squareIMongoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoWe got Sality. Huge PITA to remove.
Mine is quite tame. I accidentally unleashed the conficker worm on an org.
Had to patch about 1000 PCs across Australia to clean it up and that was a royal pain downloading windows updates over dialup.
Yes, we were still using dialup in Australia around that time and no we didn’t have wsus either.
We got Sality. Huge PITA to remove.