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• Air Force Drones Infected With Unknown Computer Virus That Won’t Go Away

  October 7, 2011 at 4:55pm

  In reply to capitalismrocks.

  Any internet connection is too much. Any “write only” connection to the outside is too much. Bringing any disk, thumb drive, etc. into (or out of) a vault (where I assume these computers reside), should require a careful scan to verify the benign content of all data, including boot sectors, and executable must never be allowed in unless fully checked….

  They KNOW this.
  These are VERY OLD rules.
  Amateur hour indeed.
  Somebody likely took a shortcut, saved an hour for an “urgent” mission, and now they’re paying thousands of man hours for it.

  But I wouldn‘t fly anything that isn’t guaranteed clean – not with live weapons on it.

• Air Force Drones Infected With Unknown Computer Virus That Won’t Go Away

  October 7, 2011 at 4:45pm

  Simple but awkward answer:
  Shut down ALL the computers on the secure network, Wipe ‘em, or better yet destroy their hard drives, and reload software, maps, etc. from scratch (after checking those files/discs are clean), then re-enable the network – after doing a similar format and reload of the drones too.

  There can be no tolerating a virus in a secure network, especially one that controls live fire weapons. One virus can load another from a remote source…
  Can you imagine a drone being fed a US facility as a target and firing on it?