The day LD's school got owned

[lightdarkness]

So today, was just another day at Williamsville North High School. People were chattering in the halls, and people knew something was up.

6th mod rolls around, LD keeps looking at the clock, and it hits 12:00, and he chuckles.

at 12:20, our assistant pricipal comes on the PA, and says (very flustered) "We are expirencing technical difficulties. We need everyone to log off the computers, and no one may log on.".

So then more kids in my class laugh. at 12:25, 6th mod ends, and I franticly run to the library, to see what happened.

There was a virus (I already knew ) called winstart.exe, made by a student. This virus was designed to change the users desktop if they logged on between 12:00 and 1:00 today 1/4/05. The wallpaper was changed to an image of 2 girls making out, and a girl with no shirt on.

Administration was FURIOUS, it was so funny, and they were running around the school.

The best part was, unknown to us (we know the kid who wrote it) was that it had spread to other highschools!

The way it spread was simple. Every user has a logon, and an H: drive. The virus is put on the C: drive of one computer, and when you log on, it transfers to your H drive, then every other computer you go to, it copies to that C drive, and it keeps spreading.

The day after it was released (In december) it had infected every computer. Over winter break, IT deleted it from everyones H drive, and the C drives get cleaned on start up every day.

We think the virus survived on Laptops, which don't have "Deep Freeze" installed, and if a class uses them, it starts spreading again.

It only went of on about 15 computers, but EVERYONE saw.

The kid didn't go to school today, and rumors say he might get arrested.

ggkthxbai!