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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Had a phone call earlier from the head's PA. He was having laptop issues, could I pop up and have a look? Sure, says I, and I toddle off up there. Have a quick play, decide I'm going to need to bring it down to my office so I can work without him looking over my shoulder.

I discover the anti-virus is 4 months out of date. And it's Sophos, which sucks. Uninstall that, install him AVG. Run AVG. An hour later, it has found 15499 viruses (no, that's not a typo. I really did say 15499). This has amused me greatly. It's also amused his PA, and my direct boss. The head himself is suitably embarrassed. What other job could you openly take the piss out of the CEO (equivalent) and get away with it? :)

I wonder if there's a world record for the amount of viruses found - I've never seen that many in one place before :)

Comments

[oh-kevin.livejournal.com]

i'm the only mac user in the office.

i laugh when they talk about anti virus, and how they update it so they are 'protected with the latest version'


my current frustration are those friggen german spam mails... anyone else seen em? exchange can only filter out so much...

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I must be really lucky, I've not had one :) I'm getting at least 2 eBay phishing emails a day to one of my Gmail accounts though.

[mjkauffman.livejournal.com]

Seen em, yep. Only spam we ever got at work. Apparently, every employee at the company I work for (a Fortune 500 company no less) got them.

We were highly amused.

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

And all these luser call into tech support asking "What are they!? Make them stop! I don't know anyone in Germany!"

Then um why did you try to open it and click on the link?

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

That's a nasty one. Dictionary-attack spams everyone on the local ISP with the hope that they don't filter local email... Tricky tricky.

Is the content actually interesting to someone who speaks German?

[jecook]

From what I understand, the sites contain Neo-Nazi propoganda.

[eightofspades.livejournal.com]

Neo-Nazi propaganda, as jecook said. Thing about that one (Sober.Q) is that the links were *just* that. No malware was evidenced during any time spent analyzing them that I picked up, and I monitor a lot of sources.

Sober.Q was posed to accept new commands this past Monday. I've heard nothing - but all the machines that Sober.Q infected (strictly speaking, Sober.P, which mutated into .Q for a week) are still out there, waiting.