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The MaDDeSTMaN

18-08-2005 09:31 PM

Holden hit by Zotob

Quote:

HOLDEN has lost $6 million in car production due to a computer virus which also caused major problems in the United States and Canada.

Holden was forced to shut down its vehicle assembly plant in Adelaide for several hours yesterday after its computer network was infiltrated by what was thought to be the Zotob virus.

Around the same time, the virus hit at least two Canadian banks and several major businesses in the US including DaimlerChrysler, ABC News, CNN, the New York Times and General Electric.

Holden said its systems were infiltrated early yesterday morning and the company stopped production until lunchtime.

The Zotob virus or worm functions by installing a program inside a user's Windows system. It then downloads a copy of itself and scans for other machines that do not have a security patch to block it.

Complete article here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...nbv%5E,00.html

Sounds to me like Holden need to hire some IT guys who have a clue...

Bucknaked

18-08-2005 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by The MaDDeSTMaN

Complete article here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...nbv%5E,00.html

Sounds to me like Holden need to hire some IT guys who have a clue...

Too busy playing Need Ford Speed.

I'd happily work for Holden "Whats this button do?"

b2tf	18-08-2005 09:40 PM

"any key? where's the any key?" :doh:

MITCHAY

18-08-2005 09:44 PM

Bloody hell just went to windows update and there is already 20 security patches i need lol. Typical Microsoft for ya. Thank god for ADSL.

3Toed

18-08-2005 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by back2thefutura

"any key? where's the any key?" :doh:

Here ya go! :yelrotflm

b2tf	18-08-2005 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3Toed

Here ya go! :yelrotflm

LMAO!

Kapn_Kiwi

18-08-2005 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3Toed

Here ya go! :yelrotflm

Mind telling me how to reach that page if I can't work out what an 'any' key is?

LUXO_8

18-08-2005 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Skinny_Puppy

Mind telling me how to reach that page if I can't work out what an 'any' key is?

haha thats a damn good point...

now wheres that tab..

MO	18-08-2005 10:38 PM

Serves em right for not having a decent firewall.

RED_EL_XR8

18-08-2005 10:44 PM

Finally GMH have an excuse for Advetura, virus was in the design all along!

Velociraptor

18-08-2005 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3Toed

Here ya go! :yelrotflm

OMG that was so funny I cant think of one smartass thing to say.

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