Comments on: Computer virus infects three London hospitals

Worm that spreads via e-mail is believed to be culprit that infected computer networks at three London hospitals.

[The_happy_switcher]

Just a guess, but I'm betting they were running some flavor of Windoze.

[n3td3v]

Why guess it when you can read the article?
http://www.sophos.com.au/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32mytobas.html

[Vegaman_Dan]

The virus was user-installed by clicking on social-engineered emails. It was self contained in only those particular systems. The hospital's IT group have a very aggrressive plan to lock down the network anytime this sort of thing happens. I have to give them kudos for that.

But how was it caused? End users clicking on blatantly obvious things they shouldn't have. Nothing new about that.

[eiverson]

Malicious emails are making a come-back, I wrote something on it over here:

http://www.securitynowblog.com/endpoint_security/malicious-email-attachments-elude-signature-based-malware-defenses

Unfortunate, this sort of enterprise attack is very preventable with systems that minimize end-user discretion without enslaving end-user productivity.

[Harrison912]

As a safety and security web site owner, I hope they catch the person or persons responsible for this. There are some really sick people out there!

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