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Show A4 UTAH/NATION Ihe Salt Lake Tribune Latest e-mail virus not Utah base makessafety changes after accident to be misinformation andfear First, the viruses are not incurable. Instruc tions for ridding computers of both Worm and Sobig.F are readily available on local ISP home pages, Microsoft sites and the Web pages of such deadly for computers anti-virds giants as Symantec (www.symantec. @ Continuedfrom Al attention mostly, a lot of people noncustomers have been callingus.” Howmany calls? More than 500, most of them from individual and corporate Internet users who could have avoided much of this week’s pain by simply downloading a Microsoft-provided pro gram patch offered more than a month ago “Essentially, thesecallers are asking us to sup spokesman Capt. Chris Logan on Thursday. Two other Marines named in the investigation, Ottley’s platoon commanderandthe platoon sergeant, have been reassigned. Logan said the matter was handled administratively, but military law forbids him from giving details. fected,” Beasley emphasized. Rather, they are evidenceof the virus being rejected. The best way to deal with Sobig.Fin addition to the suggestedfixes? Get used to tapping your “delete” key; the number of such messages will decline as Sobig.F finds its range increasingly restricted by security measures And, if you haven't already learned the lesson port their Microsoft products,” Ashdown said, add ing that as a public service, his technical staff has advised inquirers on the steps they need to take As for Xmission’s own 20,000 clients, they have received regular detailed messages and links to patches to either lock out the worm, orfix their systemsif they procrastinated. Joe Taylor, director of administrative com puting for the University of Utah, confessed to some frustration during what has become the Week of the Worm, but said the attacks found the campus’ systems well-protected. “A nuisance. That's a good word. But it hasn't been that big a deal for us,” he said. “The Worm and Sobig haven't been anything we haven't been able to handle; we've had no majoroutages I knowof.” Aros.net, another major Utah ISP, reported a small numberof its corporate-level DSL clients Hoursbefore the accident, according to a report on the investigation of the shooting, several members of the elite Ist Force Reconnaissance Company had completed a live ammunition training exercise. They stowed their personal gear — including unspent live rounds a tent before going of all this, Stephen Hess, the U. of U.’s associate vice president of information technology, was readyto drive it home. “Things are under control up here,” he said Thursday. “But we've got some cleanup work to do. All the campus machines have been patched, to another range for an urban exercise in which they were to Jeremy Ross Purcell but somestudent carry-ons and off-campus machinescould still give us trouble for a few days.” Hess, with the blessing of school administrators, is issuing notices campuswide about the wisdom of regularly updating their operating systems and virus protection programs. fire blanks. Ottley hurriedly grabbed two magazines, one with blanks and the other with live ammunition left over from the earlier training exercise. He then loaded his weapon with the magazine containing “We're going to expect some individual re- live ammunition instead of the blanks. Ottley and membersofhis team wereto search a sponsibility; people needto patch andtakecare of their machines,” hesaid. were infected by the Wormearly this week, but building, room by room, to look for other Marines Meantime, as oneof the Internet's toughest that problem was quickly corrected and no ex tended service outages occurred. “We just put up [protective network] firewalls for them,” said Mike Beasley, Aros.net’s senior assistant administrator As ror Sobig.F, the biggest factors have proven playing enemyor “aggressor”roles. WhenOttley and another Marine entered one of the rooms, Purcell, an “aggressor,” fired several rounds of blank ammunition from his M-16 rifle. Ottley fired six roundsat Purcell, hitting him three times in the chest and oncein the shoulder,said the weeks cameto a close, there was somegood news: Sobig.F declaredthefastest-growing e-mail virus ever is programmed to expire on Sept. 10, security experts announced. bmims@slItrib.com report. “Cease fire,” Ottley’s teammate yelled. “We need a corpsman.” Purcell was airlifted to the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Judge Col. Robert Chester told Ottley, who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide, that the @ Continued from Al com) and McAfee (www.mcafee.com). Second, finding those previously mentioned bounce-back e-mails in your inbox does not mean your PC is compromised, especially if fixes and patches have been applied. The strange error messages and the like “do not mean youarein- customers and Friday, August 22, 2003 “first, last and ultimate responsibility” for the death of Purcell rests with him, according to the _ San Diego Union-Tribune. The investigation revealed that leadership at Camp Pendleton “exclusively relied on individual Marines to be responsible for their own ammunition checks andverification,” according to the report. “This procedure proved inadequate to deter and correct Sgt. Ottley’s oversight and negligence.” Safety procedures werestricter at the Marine’s Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and a base at Okinawa, Japan, the report noted. Instructors controlled the distribution of ammunition at the other bases and Marines wererequired to turn in all rounds at the conclusion of training exercises. Those procedures now have been adopted at Camp Pendleton in response to Purcell’s death. Purcell graduated from West Jordan High School, whereheplayed football. He was engaged to be married at the time of his death, and had planned to becomea police officer. “It’s still hard to comprehend what the world will be like without him,” said his mother, Belinda Purcell. 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