Re: Server down - virus?
From: Brendon Rogers (brendon_at_nospam-itology.net)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:41:20 -0500
"Karl" <kthompson@pine-grove.com.nospam> wrote in message
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> On Monday morning we came in and no one was able to connect to the server
> (nor were they able to connect via VPN over the weekend).
>
> There was a message on the server that stated "Event log full".
>
> It took the outside networking firm which provides support about 5 hours
to
> get the server back up. They blamed it on a virus which "must have come in
> via a VPN connection". (There is suppose to be an anti-virus program
> running on the server.)
>
> So, my questions are, is it likely that the server was down due to a
virus,
> or could the event log being full have something to do with it? Is 5
hours
> a reasonable amount of time required to bring a server back up? (They did
> not rebuild it. Nor did they reinstall any software. This also seems
strange
> to me if in fact there was a virus.)
>
> Any comments from you pros would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA.
>
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