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Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« on: September 25, 2007, 11:29:48 am »
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/symantec_internet_meltdown_false_alarm/

While doing product testing on Friday, somebody set the threatcon to 4 on what they thought was a test machine. It wasn't. Oops. :)

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2007, 02:50:07 pm »
Haha MELTDOWN!!111

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2007, 02:55:38 pm »
Yay! That was my 500th post.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2007, 03:50:53 pm »
Yay! That was my 500th post.
Congrats! Anyway, I loved the site in iago's post! They posted that story in a very professional way, but the add in of the humor was nice too.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2007, 04:18:18 pm »
I'm not sure whats more scary, that it took Symantec and hour to push the button to fix it or that it took an hour for some sysadmin to stop playing WoW and go "hey, the internets going to meltdown! WTF?!"
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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2007, 04:46:48 pm »
Well, to be fair, nobody knew it was broken (they thought it was dev box), so pushing the button to fix it wasn't really on their mind. :)

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2007, 02:39:14 am »
Takes more than pushing a button to fix that. The malfunction was with "product testing", I'm sure they didn't know what the hell they were doing.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2007, 03:52:48 pm »
Takes more than pushing a button to fix that. The malfunction was with "product testing", I'm sure they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
I have no idea how you gathered that. They were logged into the wrong server, which is extremely easy to do, and changed the ranking, which is what they were supposed to do.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2007, 07:25:37 pm »
Can you really say you care if they pushed a button to fix this problem or not? They we're product testing so some bugs or kinks could have been involved in this. Are you saying, literally pushing a button to fix this or as a figure of speech?

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2007, 07:52:51 pm »
Can you really say you care if they pushed a button to fix this problem or not? They we're product testing so some bugs or kinks could have been involved in this. Are you saying, literally pushing a button to fix this or as a figure of speech?
Changing the Threatcon is the push of a button. Well, technically, you have to change a dropdown box then press a button. But really, it's extremely easy to do. Even I could change it to Threatcon 4 if I wanted to get fired.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2007, 09:07:58 pm »
Changing the Threatcon is the push of a button. Well, technically, you have to change a dropdown box then press a button. But really, it's extremely easy to do. Even I could change it to Threatcon 4 if I wanted to get firedon the news.

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2007, 05:42:11 pm »
Changing the Threatcon is the push of a button. Well, technically, you have to change a dropdown box then press a button. But really, it's extremely easy to do. Even I could change it to Threatcon 4 if I wanted to get firedon the news.

I laughed.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2007, 08:29:09 pm »
I'm not sure whats more scary, that it took Symantec and hour to push the button to fix it or that it took an hour for some sysadmin to stop playing WoW and go "hey, the internets going to meltdown! WTF?!"

HEY! It wasn't an hou...shit, it's midnight?

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Re: Symantec Warns of Internet Meltdown
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2007, 12:04:06 am »
Holy shit, it's c0Ld.  Also, that's an awesome article.  :)
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...