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August 20, 2003More Virii than the CDCIt all began Monday night when Patrick and I embarked on a laundry mission. Kristian hadn't been feeling well from his lack of sense and eating Hamburger Helper and as the nice person that I am agreed to do his laundry. Though I did get my laundry done for free and 20 samoleons out of the deal which I can't be too entirely upset over. For the first time this summer when having to do laundry duing a week night, So-white was looking pretty empty. I'm all excited because laundry at So-White means ice cream at Tastee Freeze. About mid-way through laundry and after ice cream (which was by the way Non-fat Raspberry and Vanilla twist soft serve with a Black Raspbery shell dip thing) my nasal cavaties start filling up. Not good. By the time I returned home, not only were my nasal cavities fucked, but my throat began hurting. Knowing that this was going to turn ugly, I took some Alka-Seltzer cold and passed the fuck out. Although I was half in and out of sleep that night with my sore throat, I managed to get a decent night's rest. At work, around 9 am , I began to receive the barrage of virus infected e-mails from a state office. I had the immediate impression that the file mailed to me was infected but I checked with Kris just to be certain. I mean, a person I don't know sending me an attached .pif file with some bogus re: subject header immediately triggers the "Danger Will Robinson" signal. The fact that our anti-virus software allowed this file to get through triggered the, "Oh Shit" response. I know how people are, I know it only takes one office idiot to open the attachment and potentially bring that system down. Especially if they're like my e-mail account housing 500 email addresses to most of the school districts in the state. I alert the lead programmer, who in turn hands me the phone to alert the sys admin. I received his voice mail. My boss happens to pass a couple of moments later and I give him a heads up on the situation. He has me try the other sys admin (who is on vacation). I leave a voice mail for both, and a couple of moments later the sys admin comes up and starts checking things out. By this time I had received a grand total of 26 tainted emails. I realize that I don't have a degree in some form of computer technology, whether it is programming or administering systems. However, I am a fairly intelligent person that is sensible and fully capable of knowing vast information. When asked why I thought these e-mails were containing virii, I said, first off all the attachments are .pif files, secondly they all are the same file with similar subject headings, and I don't know any of these people. Several hours later, turns out that yes, bitterdiva you were in fact correct, these were all containing a virus. The other part of my day was spent trying to show the admin that I wasn't infected. You can't become infected if you don't open the attachment, but I digress. Needless to say, the case of the virus emails was solved, the definitions hadn't been updated for week. I would like to think because of my quick thinking and proactive approach to this problem, I saved the organization from a very large headache. The only headache that I currently have is the one from the virus within me. So I am home today, trying to catch up on some rest and fluid intake and dosing myself with drugs. But I will say this, NyQuil gel caplets are not the same as the liquid, they don't have the alcohol in them to knock you out, and they kept me up all night. I don't think I slept an hour straight and I lost count of the number of times I was in the loo pissing. 11:53 AM
Commentssorry to hear you're feeling under the weather. try to get some rest and gargle salt water (for the sore throat), that always works for me. Posted by: mersidotes at August 20, 2003 12:01 PM Salt water is just nasty tasting though......
Posted by: groundzero at August 20, 2003 05:26 PM Oh yeah, and a side note (thanks weakest link)..... the plural for virus is.........viruses. Makes no sense. Posted by: Groundzero at August 21, 2003 10:52 AM No it doesn't, so I still go by Virii, we don't say octopuses we say octopi but viri looks odd so it should be virii. I never go by any legitimate spelling when it comes to either being cute or funny. Posted by: bitterdiva at August 21, 2003 02:09 PM Legitimate spelling? That went out in elementary skool. Posted by: Groundzero at August 21, 2003 06:46 PM Well, I hope you're feeling better soon! :) Posted by: texasyankee at August 21, 2003 07:17 PM Wow...if only I could simply raise my voice to keep my employer from being fscked by the recent viruses. I work for a company that specializes in technology that blows the mind of the average mortal, and we're still feeling the pinch. Our systems have been slow all week. Pathetic. And it's all due to the fact that out of 150,000+ worldwide employees, too many of them are retards who shouldn't be allowed to breathe. And all I want to do is put my time in each day (that's all I really have time for) Posted by: kraftus at August 22, 2003 02:55 AM Oh, and the slow systems are only after we were COMPLETELY down for 2 1/2 days. With as anal as we are about viruses getting in in the first place, that's pathetic. Posted by: kraftus at August 22, 2003 02:57 AM Post a comment
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