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Reminds me of when the Fortune 50 company (150k employees) I worked for rolled out new firewall restrictions that blocked the DNS port. To all machines. Employ

• zamadatix 6y ago
  The first use of a new security product my manager insisted we roll out (as a duplicate to an existing tool from another group) was to quarantine a change in a system file that seemed to be spreading through all of the PCs. Except the change was to quarantine explorer.exe which was being changed with a patch that just got pushed out. The net result was about 6 hours of the desktop group wondering "why the hell are all of the PCs not logging in right after this patch" followed by about a month of rolling tickets from seldom used computers that had just been powered off. His excuse was it only showed a file hash in the main screen and you had to view details to see the name plus he had a 3 day change open to roll out the system. Never understood how he got away with that one but such things did catch up to him about 2 years later.