This morning we received a call from a guy stating, "I think I have a virus." Well with these emails going around with the attachments, we were thinking, "Ye-haw, another stupid user." But wait it gets better.
This is how things transpired.
Tech: So you opened the attachment? User: Yeah, I receive this email from myself. I wanted to see what I sent myself so I opened the attachment.
There would have been many questions at that point... Like "Don't you think you would know what you sent yourself? And would it normally be a screen saver?" [or what ever type o'email you guys are getting there... Flavor of the week in our company is screen savers right now...]
LoU-Cipher wrote:How high / drunk do you have to be to wonder what you sent Yourself!!!!????
And I though I did some dumb sh*t. lol
See I did tech support at a large state university for a few years, it was not odd to get people drunk or high on the phone for support. That is why you didn't want to work fri afternoon. Or was that because i wanted to be drunk too.
While working on AOLTW's HelpDesk, there was this techie who was chosen to be on the special "Code Red" team to help with the code red virus outbreak at the time. To help understand it in depth, he contracted it on his own PC because IIS was installed unknowingly on his workstation. After I wiped my...er....his machine, he never heard the end of it 🙂
DOH!! Yeah I used to be the "virus" guy. So as a nice side benefit of doing this work the clients who got infected would add me to their address book once I cleaned their machine. So when the next virus broke out I would get hundreds of emails from all the morons...err I mean users, followed by a call from them that afternoon.
Raze had a good suggestion. The problem with email viruses is it uses an address from the infected computer, instead of sending itself from the user. He thinks the next virus should say,
Hello,
I am a dumbass because I am not smart enough to not open files sent to me. I am sending you this virus to see if you are as dumb as me.
While this is something that would have been nice to create many years ago, todays networked world causes "annoyance" viruses to be damaging as well...
A big issue with viruses today is that they take up bandwidth like crazy on corporate networks. You get a few thousand computers spaming everyone in there addressbook and it goes nuts...
If you wanted to take it to the next level though, using code to get into corporate LDAP servers and pull all addresses from there would be more effective... The problem would to be first to find the ldap server, but once you found it it would be crazy...
With AD today, it does make it a bit easier... AD = LDAP... [For the most part, some fields are hidden from LDAP queries...]... Once you found a domain controler [not hard to find], you could then send an LDAP query to it to pull addresses.
ephil wrote:With AD today, it does make it a bit easier... AD = LDAP... [For the most part, some fields are hidden from LDAP queries...]... Once you found a domain controler [not hard to find], you could then send an LDAP query to it to pull addresses.
Leave it to microsoft to make life easier for everyone, wannabe hackers included 🙂
You know, I got a call here at my helpdesk the other day from a customer that got the new version on MyDoom that's just started circulating. I don't see why people think, "I don't know this person, but I'm sure that this screen saver they're sending me is perfectly safe." Just another I D 1 0 T error.
Me? no, I get the unique pleasure of dealing with credit card holders who, at least once a day, feel it necassary to notify me that I should drop dead.
Baz wrote:Me? no, I get the unique pleasure of dealing with credit card holders who, at least once a day, feel it necassary to notify me that I should drop dead.
Have they made any creative references to you lineage, or other awe inspiring uses for your reproductive organ?