The system is down! →[More:]
We've been crippled at work for the past day and a half with some bad malware that has spread through the whole network. Shared license software and network storage, as well as internet and e-mail access was all gone yesterday. Today we're all running spybot software and Windows updates.

When something like this happens it reminds me how reliant we've all become on technology. Small mistakes like this malware incident, power outages, and other events like these can totally shut down a company. Where I used to work, I couldn't even get on to the plant one day because the power went out - the gates were electrically powered and couldn't be moved by hand!

Oh, and while IT was running around fixing things last night, they found out a handful of us have been playing Unreal Tournament on the network after hours. They were not happy about that at all.