Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Even Morons Start Early

We had a system down issue @ 06:00 this morning

Posted Date : 10/02/2007 06:18:46 AM
Production System affected: Mail
Reporting Person : John Smith
Support Person(s) : J SMith

Current date/time : 10/02/2007 06:18:46 AM
ETR : unknown
Description of Service Lost:
The XYZ application on XYw Server is sending out thousands of msgs. over 40,000 and all mail box are full.


After the above note was sent out the HMIC (Head moron in Charge) sends out this Brilliant Message...


"This seems to be a virus or worm of some sort, had read about this in the paper two days ago... " Secuirty folks why are we not filtering for Viruses? I don't understand how we can get viruses in our email system.. -Please advise
Chief Information Officer

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