Virus Outbreak???

something weird happened yesterday

as soon as i got to the office, one of my lady officer said that there's something wrong with her pc - hang, but she said she didnt want to do anything coz it's a MIMOS pc and we decided to wait for MIMOS technician to arrive. but then, another officer said that his pc is also having the same problem... then another one... then another... and by this time, the MIMOS technicians has arrived and their pc also hv the exact same problem. wahhh... this is baddd... really baddd... maybe virus. and then "truttt-trutttt", "kring-kring", "trrrrtt-trrrttt" - suddenly, all the phones were ringing and all reported the same problem that my colleagues hv... and i dunno but maybe it's just a coincidence, all pc were of MIMOS brand so we thought, maybe there's something wrong with MIMOS brand pc... but then, come to think of it, I AM using a MIMOS pc and i dont hv that problem... and mine was up since the day before yesterday - bcos i forgot to shut it down hehehehhh... and dzulfatah (one of our technicians) also using MIMOS pc and he also doesnt hv problems. and not long after that, some compaq pc in out training room also got this problem.

so, the first thing we did was checked trendmicro's website - to see whether there's a new outbreak but... NONE! and then symantec - also NONE! and then visit Microsoft - NONE! checked the other antivirus websites that we could think of, NONE fits the symptoms. tried to visit Jaring's website - down. hmmm... wonder what's really happening...

then, David of ITH came and we told him about this. normally, he'd hv info on latest virus outbreak coz he has his "resources" but then, he said he's also not aware of this and promise that he'll check with his "resources". after a few minutes, he said "Red Alert! New virus outbreak but still under investigation. seems to be affecting PCs with Windows XP SP 2. so far, Windows 98s are safe" waaahhh... apa lagi we all... kelam-kabut mengarang "Virus Allert Notice" bcos we couldnt use e-mail, so we faxed a hard copy announcement to all department/schools/units/institutes. hopefully they can put it up on their noticeboard as soon as possible. since we dont know anything about this virus yet, the best advie we can give them is to unplug their network cable - even though i'm sure all the "cerdik-pandai" (extra-smart) people out there are stubborn and wouldnt even pay attention to such notice. and then, when they get infected, they'll be blaming us! arghhhhh!!! it's so hard to work with this kind of people!

by the way, was there really a virus outbreak??? if so, then how come right until this minute, there are still no info available from any website??? if there's really a major virus attack, it would be all over the news by now so... any idea???

mrbadak? are you reading this right now? do you hv any info on this???

mac??? anything from your side???

i've learned that KKIPCom was also hit by this "strange outbreak" coz i've read it at my friend's blog. she works there...

anybody else???

hmmm strange....