April 13, 2009

Conficked.

So The Conficker virus hit my work last week. (read about it at KSL's Site.)

We started noticing problems on Thursday and by Friday lunchtime, our internet was locked out by the desktop admins to try to eliminate further infections (except for university-ownerd sites, of course) and our access to network drives had been removed in order to protect all that data. Work for me had come to nearly a standstill, since much of my work is done from network drives and I need some outside websites (like the National Provider Index database) in order to work.

When I got back into work today, we have internet access again but Firefox has been blocked (mumble grumble) now I'm forced into using Internet Exploder. Maybe I'll just hook up my laptop and use that since it doesn't have the software that allows the desktop team to block things. In addition, it uses linux instead of windows so conficker won't hurt it. =-D

Our kids had a fun Easter and got very hopped up on Sugar. Levi had a realy hard time listeningto us and doing what was asked, but he sure had fun with all the candy. I'll get pictures (or maybe a movie) of all the egg dyeing up soon if any turned out well.