By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 07 December 2004
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Colin Stamp
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Software Engineer
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The network was out from Monday afternoon until Friday morning when all services were restored to full operation.
My understanding is that EDS were running a trial deployment of Windows XP across a portion of the network. Naturally they had to disable the virus protection first. What they forgot to do was disconnect the server they were using from the rest of the network and thus virus protection was removed from the entire estate. I believe that one or more Trojans got in and trashed the system.
EDS mucked about for 2 days before calling in Microsoft on the Wednesday.
I am perplexed at the reasons offered by the solut...
Oluwafe akinsola
Typical EDS......it only took them one month to ad...
Richard Tucker
The network was out from Monday afternoon until Fr...
Colin Stamp
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