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.
> 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
> 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
> computers that were infected by the virus and have SAIC to go to the
> school site to clean the virus. As you know, the viruses spread faster
> than we can block them. These viruses normally infect the computer
> that does not have the latest Microsoft patches. If all computers in
> the school district have the latest Microsoft patches, we should not
> have this problem. Cisco Engineer is trying to find out a solution.
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:(