Network Problems Traced to Infected Computers
dwaldron September 15th, 2007
Over the course of Thursday and Friday, September 13th and 14th, the College experienced intermittent network difficulties. These difficulties impacted access to resources on the campus network as well as resources on the internet. These problems were tracked to a small number of personal computers infected with some type of virus. The virus was, in each case, generating a tremendous amount of network traffic. This traffic significantly degraded network performance. These computers were removed from the network at approximately 5:00 Friday afternoon. Following the removal network performance returned to normal. IT hopes to examine the infected machines to ascertain the nature of the infection. We regret any inconvenience the network difficulties may have caused.