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Originally Posted by aap1966
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Work. No-one could access their e-mail. IT notified. Nothing heard back. Hours pass, still unable to acccess e-mail.
IT rung again.
Hostile Techie's response: "We fixed that hours ago, I e-mailed all staff how to get around it" ( I am NOT making that up)
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The first macro virus was the "Concept" virus, around 1996. It was created to prove the point.
At the time, our antivirus software was updated weekly, automatically running a login/startup script/bat file (Windows 3.11 / Win 95). I manually updated my virus def files by going direct to the manufacturer. The script file accessed an out of date virus def file (Our IT people were all let go, and they went to contractors in 1995!). For my own machine, I disabled the script, and kept my files up to date, manually.
IT sent around an e-mail with a word document, warning of the Concept virus. The file was, of course, infected with the Concept virus. Most of GE Power Systems became infected that day...
Around the same time, there were a lot of stupid chain e-mail hoaxes. One of them is a classic, the one where people are being drugged and waking up in a bath-tub of ice and finding a kidney gone. Anyway...
One of the departments, a very high tech one mind you (Gas Turbine combustion systems, FYI), sent a paper news letter around. Yes hard copy newsletters. Imagine! They included news of all the new developments, what was going on in the lab as well as at the field test sites. I headed up warranty for our department and was head of all new instrumentation and control hardware, so I worked closely with them. (Aside, the CRAZY EYES girlfriend was a combustion engineer). Anyway...
The head of the department thought the kidney issue was so important, it was included in the hard-copy newsletter.
I called the secretary (still had a few then) and told her it was an e-mail hoax. She became quite defensive about it. She swore that this had actually happened to one of our field engineers. Her boss (the department head) had told her so...