Why? Why Why Why? Part of the fun of being an IT Director for a small shop is dealing with stupid things like virii. We had 1, YES 1, box on our entire network not running AV software. Reason being, it’s our phone server (Altigen) and when we previously had Symantec running on it, it would drop calls every single morning at 8:15. Well, of course, it got infected with the Virut.A virus, which is particularly nasty due to it hijacking the winlogon.exe file, and making it relative impossible to remove.
I’ve been fighting this thing now since midnight (8:00 am, as I type), and I’m finally making some headway in getting some of the infected files healed. Were it NOT our phone server, I would just dffr the thing and call it a day, but considering all the voicemails and configuration aren’t exactly something we can lose, no such luck there.
I hope there’s a special place for virus/malware writers. I just don’t get the appeal.