for the past 5 weeks I have not been able to get to this site while at
work. I'm a unicyclist.com junkie. There, I said it!
I look forward to skimming the forum at lunch to get the latest.
Then 5 weeks ago, I started getting a message about "this site cannot be
reached."
Turns out it is a virus. I just have to wait until they can figure out
how to get rid of it.
Below is the text from an email message I got from tech support.
Here is the information I get from our networking group.
This is caused by the virus that affecting the whole school district.
Quoted message said:The virus that we are having problem right now is attacking port 80.
It might be caused by Nachi/CodeRed/Nimda... virus. This virus will
do
Quoted message said:a massive "HTTP port 80 get" and busy out the Content Engines. The
users are normally getting the out of resource message when content
engine is busy. As we cannot block port 80, we are trying to block
the
Quoted message said:computers that were infected by the virus and have SAIC to go to the
Quoted message said:school site to clean the virus. As you know, the viruses spread
faster
Quoted message said:than we can block them. These viruses normally infect the computer
that does not have the latest Microsoft patches. If all computers in
Quoted message said:the school district have the latest Microsoft patches, we should not
Quoted message said:have this problem. Cisco Engineer is trying to find out a solution.
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Albert Antonious
Senior IT Customer Support
ITD - LAUSD
It's good to know they weren't blocking the site as they do with others.
Now I just have to wait. Arrrrghh🙁
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