Get them off of me!

[andrewducker]

At 4:00 today I happened to check the public bulletin board for the IS department, where I found an announcement that the server I (along with my whole department) use to store files on had contracted the Nimda virus. We were instructed to disconnect from the server at once and run an anti-virus tool.

I immediately started the anti-virus tool, informed a few others that something was up and turned back to save my files. At which point someone obviously decided the smart thing to do was to cut everyone off from the server without letting them save first. At which point two word documents and a program I'd been working on all vanished from in front of my eyes, as did Lotus Notes.

Having ascertained that the server wasn't going to let us back in and that I had, indeed, lost about an hours work, I decided to go home.

Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be able to get back to where I was fairly easily.

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

how lucky can one man get???

I mean having Lotus Notes disapear in front of your eyes...

Lucky, lucky bastard

[allorin.livejournal.com]

The server was back up about 5 minutes after you left....

[darkoshi]

Yeah, well how about when you get a company-wide message saying that everyone is supposed to update such-n-such by following the enclosed instructions.

so, you go ahead and do it, then a week later wonder why you're having all these weird problems, which noone else is. then you finally figure out it was due to having followed those instructions, which apparently nobody else on the entire floor bothered to do...

that's the last time i follow instructions. next time i'll be like everyone else, and won't do it until someone comes to my machine and makes me.

bzzzz

[davecleghorn.livejournal.com]

Cool. Do you just get to go home when you like? Kidding, thats really frustrating actually ~ but you can see theyre point. We got hit a little with Sobig via people downloading from personal email. Still dont know how they managed to get a .pif or .scr through, but consequently we've barred practically all internet access. I can feel theyre hatred.

Re: bzzzz

[andrewducker]

My core hours are 9:30-11:45 and 2:30-4:30. And I need to work at least 7 hours a day. Outside of those limits I can do as I please, generally.

Re: bzzzz

[davecleghorn.livejournal.com]

pretty sweet.