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Originally Posted by gruntledweasel
Heh. I wish our campus network was safe enough for me to stick my head in the sand like that. I've had several friends who were actually unable to finish patching a fresh OS install on their machines before being infected. ...
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My campus network is the same. In fact, I've been building machines for clients the last couple of days, and I lost two Windows XP installs that way before I started hiding the "virgin" machine from the network using the second LAN port on my motherboard. Both times the machine was not connected to the network until immediately prior to going on-line to complete the Windows Update procedure... and both times, NAV was "guarding" the system against viruses (it saw them both times, but failed to do anything). Damn frustrating, I'll tell you.
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Originally Posted by gruntledweasel
... And as murphy's law goes, you will get infected at the worst possible time. Twice, I've seen someone get nailed with something nasty enough they couldn't get any work done when a big paper was due the next day.  |
Isn't that the sad truth? I've never had it happen personally, but I have loaned out one of my SETI rigs a couple of times to friends who have been crippled the night before a paper was due.