I had a virus that took down the company network, ask my anything!

[LSK]

[anarch]

1. ebola?

After all, it's hard to keep your LAN running when all the system admins are bleeding from their eyes....

[LSK]

12. bird flu

[swag]

2. What software does your company use for virus protection?

[LSK]

5. Norton

I did a virus scan yesterday and didnt find anything. I searched my hard drive for files modified in the past 2 days and there was c:\23100247.exe. Booted to safe mode and removed it and HOPEFULLY problem is solved.

[petronius]

3. Did you get that e-mail I forwarded yesterday with the cool attachment?

:silly:

[LSK]

7. no sex threads

:P

[LeftyMom]

4. How was the line at unemployment?

:shrug:

[LSK]

6. luckily i dont work for an anal company like that

Although there is a new boss starting soon....

[Madrone]

8. Are you still employed?

There are many places you wouldn't be after that.

[LSK]

9. yes

[matcom]

10. Being a network admin myself

i would have hung you by your toes and shoved bamboo under your toenails :D

[LSK]

11. but I believe it came from a spam email

So its the email admins fault.

:P

[matcom]

13. *ahem*

never, EVER open Spam email!

*gets rope. starts to make noose*

[LSK]

15. and how do you know if its spam unless you open it?

:shrug:

ps: I didnt click on an attachment.

[malmapus]

14. lol I was the IT guy (systems / network admin) for a small non profit

Back when the I Love you virus was going around. I made an effort to send emails out and talking to everyone about opening anything not work related. Sure enough one day, this assistant did, haha I actually jumped to this floor PA system and asked everyone to close outlook while I went to stop the email services on Exchange Server.

But yeah, after all those warnings, I wanted to string her up too. :D