It Got Into My Toaster and It Went Bad

[Gage Silver 0]

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From: ENS Silver, Gage D

Subject: Unplug the Toaster

 

>physically disconnect: ship’s communication arrays, sensor arrays, network antennas from ODN* and local sub-processors

>switch critical system control to local sub-processors and MCS/CS*

suggest: environmental, shields, matter-antimatter and fusion reactors, EPS*, fuel and propulsion, weapons

>physically disconnect local sub-processors and CS from ODN

>run quick scan on local sub-processors and CS; clean or quarantine virus if present and if possible

>>if communication sub-processor is clean: reconnect communication arrays to local sub-processor

>shutdown computer core and non-critical systems; alternative: force hard reboot

>clean or reimage core system files

>run full scan on core; reevaluate

>if core is clean: reconnect sub-processors and CS to ODN; switch critical system control to core

>disconnect sub-processors and CS from ODN; run full scan on sub-processors and MCS; clean or quarantine virus if present

>reconnect all systems to ODN

>run full scan

 

Best case: we’ll have the Creek running with that new car smell in 3-4 hours.

Worst case scenario? The programmer thought of this and we’ll have to physically disconnect systems from the EPS grid when everything goes to hell.

 

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*ODN: Optical Data Network (aka fiber optic LAN).

*EPS: Electo-Plasma System or the power distribution network.

*MCS: Machinery Control System (or Mission, Missile, etc); or

*CS: Control System

Edited December 8, 2011 by Gage Silver