How the “Sality” Virus Took Down 16 Computers
On October 8th
It happened so fast, and once it did, they knew it was too late…
Quickly, the icons for their anti-virus software disappeared, and their anti-virus software was inoperable — worse, the virus was spreading throughout their network, doing similar damage to each machine it hit.
All in all, this computer virus outbreak affected most of this particular company’s 16 computer systems, including 2 production servers – resulting in days of downtime.
Unfortunately, we were called after the damage had been done – discovering that one of the first machines to get infected had expired anti-virus software. 
But guess what?
