Saw this one on my subscription to LockerGnome "Bits 'n Bytes". Seems those over at Ford have been given a "safe" period to clean out their Harddrives from housing Pornographic images, funnily enough it didn't mention Mp3's.
Ford is giving its workers two weeks to remove pornographic and other offensive material from computers as part of a new crackdown.
The US-owned motor company has sent an email to staff across the UK announcing a two-week amnesty for employees to delete internet-related porn.
It is the latest in a series of moves by the firm to tackle misuse of its computers, a problem which has hit many other companies since the explosion of Internet use.
Ford is giving its workers the chance to get rid of pornographic pictures, web site addresses, emails or other offensive material.
Spot checks will be launched after the amnesty and Ford warned if workers ignored the move it would be taken as a serious disciplinary offence.
Three employees at Ford's Dagenham plant in Essex were suspended last year following an incident related to emails. Ford wrote to workers last year warning it would not tolerate the downloading of pornographic or other offensive material.
A Ford spokeswoman said today that following discussions with union officials on how to get the message across, it had been decided to give workers the two-week amnesty.
"Workers are being told that if they have anything on their computers which is inappropriate or could offend anyone they should remove it."
News source: Ananova.com
Ford is giving its workers two weeks to remove pornographic and other offensive material from computers as part of a new crackdown.
The US-owned motor company has sent an email to staff across the UK announcing a two-week amnesty for employees to delete internet-related porn.
It is the latest in a series of moves by the firm to tackle misuse of its computers, a problem which has hit many other companies since the explosion of Internet use.
Ford is giving its workers the chance to get rid of pornographic pictures, web site addresses, emails or other offensive material.
Spot checks will be launched after the amnesty and Ford warned if workers ignored the move it would be taken as a serious disciplinary offence.
Three employees at Ford's Dagenham plant in Essex were suspended last year following an incident related to emails. Ford wrote to workers last year warning it would not tolerate the downloading of pornographic or other offensive material.
A Ford spokeswoman said today that following discussions with union officials on how to get the message across, it had been decided to give workers the two-week amnesty.
"Workers are being told that if they have anything on their computers which is inappropriate or could offend anyone they should remove it."
News source: Ananova.com
Files Vulnerable
When Klez infects a PC, it installs itself into the registry, infects executable files, and kills the tasks launched by security programs running on the PC. Programs targeted include those offered by Symantec, Network Associates, F-Secure, Sophos, and Trend Micro--all of which market antivirus products. The worm also removes the autostart components of these programs, disabling them, F-Secure said.
Microsoft addressed the Klez worm in a recent update of Internet Explorer. IE versions 5.01 and 5.5 are vulnerable to the worm.
The worm has an even more damaging payload, however, that is activated when a certain combination of dates occurs, according to F-Secure. On the sixth day of odd-numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, November) the worm attempts to overwrite all files on the infected PC that have specific extensions. Among those targeted are such common file types as .txt, .htm, .html, .wab, .doc, .xls, .jpg, .cpp, .c, .pas, .mpg, .mpeg, .bak, and .mp3, according to F-Secure. Wednesday, the sixth day of March, an odd-numbered month, is such a file-deletion day.
Klez has been around since late 2001, though it has gone through a number of variations.
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