The news on July 23, Dell’s server is apt to be infected with the electronic virus, thus cause the personal secrets data to be stolen, today Dell shows, will provide the part of the server for customer to replace.

Dell claims, this is a rare accident, has not received the attack temporarily, it is apt to infect the assembly that the company will change as soon as possible.

A press spokesman Dell says, a kind of worm-type virus which is called W32.Spybot will infect the mother board, is not clear now how to infect, Dell will change the main board assembly, the server of new outloading will not adopt the old assembly either.

Dell still publishes the article and claims in the official website, four servers involve changing: PowerEdge R310, R410, R510, T410, it is lower than 1% to infect probability; If user’s antivirus software of staging in time, the machine will be safer.

Generally speaking, the server that enterprises use has mass data, if receive virus attack, will infect to the PC, thus cause great losses.

W32.Spybot worm-type virus was born in 2003, it can set up telecommunication, facilitated operator’s remote control computer, carry on many kinds of tasks. The researcher Dean Turner of Symantec says: “Behind receiving order, virus can not do a lot of thing, but main design of it to steal confidential information in original intention. ”

Tags: Dell, hostile software, server mother board

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