Any new bad virus' effecting XP atm?

HookeyStreet · May 7, 2010, 11:38 AM

I work in a school and something has disrupted nearly the whole network. Most PCs wont logon to the network. Others randomly restart after 5 minutes. The problem started on a couple of PCs yesterday afternoon and seems to have 'spread' today to most of the other PCs/notebooks.

Personally, it looks like a nasty virus has attacked the servers. What do you think?

DriedFrogPills · May 7, 2010, 11:42 AM

do they have macafee antivirus?

Radical_Edward · May 7, 2010, 11:48 AM

I wouldn't put it past a student to be messing with the network. That kind of crap happened at my high school a few times.

If it is a virus, that's one heck of a nasty one.

HookeyStreet · May 7, 2010, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DriedFrogPills

do they have macafee antivirus?

Im not sure tbh. The anti-virus isnt accessable on the PC as its all controlled from the main server(s)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radical_Edward

I wouldn't put it past a student to be messing with the network. That kind of crap happened at my high school a few times.

If it is a virus, that's one heck of a nasty one.

Yeah lol. Weve solved the problem, but it is going to involve restarting ALL of the computers in safe mode with network. Thats nearly 500 PCs/laptops

We think it was a bad update from the ISP and it messed with the user control settings

Thanks anyway guys for the replys

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