So, thanks to our good friend Zotob, I left work today at about 1 PM. Given that pretty much every single computer at my employer was affected and given that everything we do is based around writing and editing information that’s stored on the network, well, there hasn’t been much since all of the computers started shutting themselves down yesterday at about 1 PM. There were large signs everywhere and announcements this morning not to turn on your computer, and from the memo that was distributed at around lunch time, it doesn’t look like this is going to get fixed until at least late tomorrow or maybe Friday.
If I were a full-time employee, this would be great, but being a contractor, well, if I’m not there, I don’t get paid. I snuck out early anyway since I need to back up my laptop. Yes, I’m finally getting around to sending this thing in for repairs – it only took a month to get around to it 🙂 Anyway, I’ll make up the tie by going in early tomorrow and Friday, though I hope I can come up with stuff to do in the meantime.
So how did Zotob get in? They don’t have a firewall?
Oh, most assuredly. However, if one were to, say, hook an infected laptop to the network…away you go!
Wow. We did real good then. We got hit by Zotob.E, but it’s my job to fix these machines. We were affected at the initial infection, but in about a few hours we were back up to capacity again.
But, that’s what I do, fix stuff on bunches of computers all at once. 🙂
And we are *still* down. The last update I heard was “We don’t expect to let most non-essential users back on the network until at least tomorrow morning…”
So I sat there at my desk and read for 8 hours today. We’re all going stir-crazy, though. 😛
If I were a full-time employee, this would be great
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But that would only be if you were one of the full-time employees not sent crawling through the bowels of AP8 to patch cranky machines for 10 hours straight 😉 Turned out to be pretty much an all-hands operation for anyone non-contract in IT, even if their job has nothing to do with support.
I am a smidge tired 😉