Well, my company’s been badly hit by the Nimda virus. As soon as they think they have systems clean, some new infection wings its way in.
Not unlike anti-terrorist measures, the Network Powers That Be have been implementing stricter and stricter controls, trying to get this under control. They’ve had Internet access shut off for most of the week (they finally opened up a couple of controlled mail gateways, but general Internet access is still blocked). They’ve been forcing each site to get up-to-date on AV and IE software, or face being cut off from the world. They’ve been discovering that workstations and servers alike need to be rebuilt when infected (our office is actually in pretty good shape here, compared to some others who were too distracted spending money to practice good network administration).
But the crowning blow came today. They’re shutting down all outbound modems. Disastrous. “But that’s how I do my personal e-mail! And check out web sites I don’t want being monitored by the Network Spooks! And –“
Obviously not something I can complain about to anyone who could or would do something about it. Though I’ve tried to be safe, turned off Win2K Internet sharing, running a firewall, etc.
*Sob*
So if my daytime blogging and e-mailing takes a plummit in the days to come … you know why.