Nevada AFB Hit By Virus

From Fox News: A fleet of U.S. military drones on a Nevada Air Force base has been infected by a keylogger virus that tracks every key and button their pilots press, Wired.com reported Friday -- and top Air Force sources strongly contested.
The virus was first noticed by officials at Creech Air Force Base nearly two weeks ago using the base's security system. It logged every keystroke of the pilots in the control room on the base as they remotely flew Predator and Reaper drones on missions over Afghanistan and other battle zones.
There has been no confirmation of information being lost or sent to an outside source, but the virus has been resistant to military efforts to clear it from the system.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," a source told Wired.
It's not immediately clear whether the virus hit the system intentionally or by accident. But the existence of ordinary-seeming computer viruses on what should be the most extraordinarily secure of military systems is far from shocking, said Anup Ghosh, a former scientist with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and chief scientist with security company Invincea.
They're just computers, after all.
"[The drones] are controlled by standard PCs," Ghosh told FoxNews.com. "None of this should be surprising." The system should be replaced or "re-imaged" with a virus-free, bit-for-bit copy of the data on the drive in order to get rid of the infection, he said.
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Creech AFB is in Indian Springs, NV. about 45 miles Northwest of Las Vegas. Indian Springs has a population of about 1500 people and it is a trailer park community- about 95% of the houses in Indian Springs are trailer homes.
If you plan it right, you can see the Drones taking off and landing at Creech and it is really kind of neat watching them practice take offs and landings, but they usually do it in the evening when it is dark out.. Further, if you get out of your car about 10 miles north of Indian Springs and Creech, you will hear the drone of the Drone engines- propeller sounds. But you don't where the drones are at, so this must scare the hell out of those who live in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and whereever Obama wants to bomb. Several times, I have driven past Creech and seen and heard the Drones take off and land. Many times, they will fly about 20 feet off the ground, fly parallel to Hwy 95, about 50 yards from the highway.
As for the virus, who knows how it got to Creech. Did it come from the drones, did someone buy a trailer house in Indian Springs and uploaded a virus from there or some other way? Most of the airmen at Creech actually live at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, so they have gotten a computer virus from an airman who plugged in a computer device to the computer system at Creech. While there are dorm's on Creech, I don't think they are used because I see so few cars there. Besides, in Indian Springs, there is only a casino, 2 connivance stores, an elementary and a jr/sr high school to keep the airmen completely bored. In other words, there is not much there for they typical airman.
I am sure they will get rid of the virus, one way or another I have not heard of any drones crashing near Indian Springs, so it is not affecting the Drones at Creech. But it is also embarrassing that the computers at Creech were infected by a virus and they don't know where it came from or so who went it. It is also curious how Fox News got the information.
Any way you look it, though, it is embarrassing that a tiny air force base in a small Nevada town caught a major league virus. I wonder where else this is happening.