The Past Couple Days
ARRRGGGHHH!!! The past couple days at work have been no less than a frustrating, confusing, steaming pile of crap here at work. It all started on Monday when work laptop became infected w/ the SmitFraud malware program. If you need to know what exactly that is, check it out here. So I told IT about it. The response was for me to fix it. Fine. I did, though it took a while.
Next, we find that there’s a network worm/trojan horse screwing w/ the machines in the office. Just so happens that mine is the most jacked up. Fine. Go find the little bastards, quarantine them, kill them. Done and done? Not so. Tuesday my machine was fucked beyond belief, I tried to fix it again. Nope.
Wednesday I had to send the reports and screenshots to IT so they’d help me out. It took all of 10 minutes of them looking at my machine to say: “It’s toast. 100% dead.” SWEET! There goes my software, files not yet moved to the network, etc… Fortunately, I save everything of high importance on the network, I can re-download my software, re-install CS2 w/ the discs, when I get the new machine.
Thursday, no new machine. I have a beast of a PC in my office that I’ve never used (64 bit) so I had to configure that one. Another problem: can’t get the machine to install or configure the network software. So do what now? Go find an emergency laptop somewhere in the office. Turns out (after an hour or so) that a paralegal had it, she was happy to let me use it for a day. So I have to use 2 computers throughout Thursday.
Friday, I finally get the new machine. I’ve got most of my stuff back onto it, except IT hasn’t harvested the RAM out of my old laptop (2gigs) and put it in the new one, so I can’t run CS2 software. Bah. By Monday end-of-day, I should be back to some semblance of normality, have my old files (those that could be salvaged from the toasted laptop) and get back to working for real.
Anyone else have a “great” week?
