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Worms Make Life Hard on Admins

I work at the University of Cincinnati, where we have just around 70,000 students, faculty, and staff. Managing the IT infrastructure here must be a nightmare -- I can only imagine. The recent spate of Internet worms isn't helping these guys to get any sleep either, as this portion of a recent email sent around to UC netizens suggests:

Two more computer WORMs - Nachi and Sobig.F - have joined LovSan/Blaster in the pack of cyber-prowlers looking to puncture privacy and take control of your computer. The Sobig virus is propagating aggressively around the Internet and within the UC network through the e-mail systems. In the past 36 hours, UC has intercepted and cleaned over 50,000 instances of these infections on the University's e-mail system.

Days like these make me glad I'm not an IT administrator. Of course, days like these don't really make me happy I'm even an email user.