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Old 18-08-2005, 09:31 PM   #1
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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...

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Old 18-08-2005, 09:35 PM   #2
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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.

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Old 18-08-2005, 09:40 PM   #3
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Old 18-08-2005, 09:44 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 18-08-2005, 10:07 PM   #6
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Old 18-08-2005, 10:26 PM   #8
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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...

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Old 18-08-2005, 10:38 PM   #9
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Serves em right for not having a decent firewall.
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Finally GMH have an excuse for Advetura, virus was in the design all along!
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