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Old 18-08-2005, 08:31 PM   #1
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Default Holden hit by Zotob
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HOLDEN has lost $6 million in car production due to a computer virus which also caused major problems in the United States and Canada.

Holden was forced to shut down its vehicle assembly plant in Adelaide for several hours yesterday after its computer network was infiltrated by what was thought to be the Zotob virus.

Around the same time, the virus hit at least two Canadian banks and several major businesses in the US including DaimlerChrysler, ABC News, CNN, the New York Times and General Electric.

Holden said its systems were infiltrated early yesterday morning and the company stopped production until lunchtime.

The Zotob virus or worm functions by installing a program inside a user's Windows system. It then downloads a copy of itself and scans for other machines that do not have a security patch to block it.
Complete article here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...nbv%5E,00.html

Sounds to me like Holden need to hire some IT guys who have a clue...

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