It's been a long day. I'm as done with tonight's work as I'm gonna get, just finishing up a couple of important work-related emails so co-workers can get stuff done early in the morning before I show up. And iTunes starts playing a song I don't recognize. Not so surprising; there are several songs here that I'm only vaguely familiar with. But then it abruptly stops and switches to another song. I look at the iTunes panel, and discover that it's a 16-second-long sound clip, performed by someone I've never heard of. How did it get onto my computer? I have no idea.<\/p>\n
In other news, I had rather a panic this morning. I called the helpdesk at work to tell them about this Microsoft\/virus thing (which turned out to be Gibe); the guy I talked with hadn't heard of it, so I told him I would email it to him. And I did. And then ten minutes later I found out that it's one of those viruses that executes itself on arrival in Outlook, without needing to be launched by the recipient.<\/p>\n
I spent half an hour having panicky thoughts about having unleashed a virus on the company's internal network, while trying to help. Couldn't get through to the IT guy to tell him not to open his mail.<\/p>\n
Finally talked to another IT guy, who was very helpful and friendly and explained that (a) they've updated to the latest antivirus software, which protects against Gibe; and (b) Gibe is a slow-propagating and buggy piece of software, and often just fails to spread.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness for lack of QA on malevolent software.<\/p>\n
Me for bed. Assuming I survive the drive home.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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