Wakeup Call

I just spent an hour and a half removing the W95.MTX virus from a faculty member's computer.  It's a nasty little bug, it infects your wsock32.dll file as well as several others.  It will crash your web browsers if you try to access anything at Symantec's web site, keeping you from updating your virus definitions to remove it.  I finally wound up using the removal tool, in conjunction with Norton AntiVirus 2001, for which I updated the virus info manually.  It's a nasty one folks, so make sure those virus definitions are up to date.

Here's a way to get your heart beating in the morning: delete your "Inbox" folder by mistake.  It's okay, I've recovered it now, but I was in panic mode for a bit there.  I've got 400 messages in it, many of which contain important information, like what needs to be fixed.  Sure, I could have gotten one of the central computer folks to retrieve my folder from a backup tape, but I would have been torn between my need for that information, and my need to save face...