Rantville

Im still amazed how this can happen, not the ‘being infected by a virus’ part, but that an entire county(including its server farm) runs Windows. Im sure they have ‘some’ *nix based systems in their grid, but from the looks of it thats narrowed down to embedded equipment, routers/switches etc.

You can read on their homepage that all nodes are infected by the trojan Conficker.B worm. In Norwegian only, but boiling it down, 6500 nodes are affected.

Sensitive information about their inhabitans are also stored in the systems affected..
They have published steps in how to deal with this, but no mentioning of looking for alternatives OS wise. Way to go!

The most hilarious bit? Look at the bottom, the county’s information ‘chief’ published his yahoo email account as a temp means of communication..

The really really sad part? Most county’s in Norway are Microsoft whores, thats right, be afraid.. be very afraid.