Hi malware fighters,
Worm-attack urged US to ban the use of USB sticks and external disks, a temporary measure to prevent the spread of W32.SillyFDC worm: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2006-071111-0646-99&tabid=1
Make sure you cannot get infected by a virus via the autorun feature: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2008032111570648
pol
Hi FwF,
Very attentive of you to give the appropriate news link. Reason for our forum friends to undercut this so-called feature on their Windows machines. Too many infections seen from it lately,
pol
I think the British Government should adopt that practice, perhaps it would stop them losing so damn many of them as well ;D
That just means their administrators are dumb. In my company autorun system is completely disabled.
I can use my USB keys just fine on company workstations but they don’t autostart. I have to open them manually.
Problem solved.
The problem is in an organisation like the Army it is such a widely distributed infrastructure that there are very few or no IT administrators at sub unit or lower levels. Even in many large units there is no specific IT Manager.
My last four and a half years of my military service was in IT as an analyst programmer (many years ago now) we used to introduce computer management systems (primarily stock control) for large supply depots. So we got to see what was in a unit whilst we would be putting in a network with dumb terminals, there would also be some PCs already in place for various other tasks and even though they weren’t meant to have any games on them we did find them on occasion as there was little direct control/management.
Well sure, but then again our company isn’t small either. In fact it’s one of the biggest in central and southern European region.
I’m sure someone watches over their systems. If no one does, then there you have the flaw. It’s not in portable HDD’s but in their bad administration. But then again it’s probably cheap to hire dozen of regular GI Joe’s than 4 geeks to keep workstations working properly.
Part of the problem in the new modern army is there are now (when I was in, computers were much fewer in number, I left in 1993) so there are computer in almost every area.
You would need an awful lot of geeks to look after the volumes of systems now, not many are very interested in making house calls when the computer is in Iraq or Afghanistan, etc.
Hi malware fighters,
Interesting link with solution to the problem of USB worms:
http://nick.brown.free.fr/blog/2007/10/memory-stick-worms
pol
Very handy little reg key, I have copied that blog page for rererence.
You can also use http://www.net-studio.org/