Finished!

[tarotgal]

Well, I finished everything I had intended to finish by the dry run today. It's not heavily tested so it will probably break BIGTIME when we try it out and there's no way for me to restart it remotely. So all I can do it hope there are no huge problems that make the system crash. Maybe I'll burn it only CD juuuuuuuuuust in case...

BUT point is, YAY! Finished the draft of the implementation! Boyfriend's going away this weekend, so I plan to spend it renting movies in celebration and setting to work on actually writing the damn thesis :-)

Anyway.. I'm off to bed... boy my hands and wrists HURT from typing. But I need a hot shower and sleep. Meeting is in five hours. *crosses fingers*

Yeah, I know, TMI :-) But hey, I've been bitching so much I thought happy news wouldn't hurt, right? Go, read story if you want something more on topic *G*

Comments

a fix to your virus problem

[(Anonymous)]

Hey There *S*

Sorry, I know I am posting my response to the wrong section but I wanted to make sure that you got this. I too got the same virus or worm. I went to check e-mail yesterday and I had 180 messages. All the same, wicked screen saver or "Details"

I had to break down any buy Norton Anti-virus since McAffee didn't pick it up. It is called "So Big.wmf if I recall. You can read about it on the symantec site or on trends.com

Once I eliminated it, I had no further problems. You can download the fix for it.

Congrats on all the work you have finished and all my best wishes are with you. Happy thesising.

Take Care

Sniffyguy

Re: a fix to your virus problem

[tarotgal]

Um.. I don't HAVE the worm, other peole do and are sending it to me through e-mail(through their address books). Through uni I'm able to have top of the line anti-virus software(one of which being Symantec corporate edition)so I know I'm not infected. I certainly don't go about opening attachments when there has been word of a worm in the news for WEEKS. I can't help it if other people don't pay attention to the news and open attachments that are clearly viruses. Though honestly you would think with all the publicity this particular worm got(I must have seen at least 6 different news reports about it last week) and in this day and age users would know better than to open pif files. That's all I meant by my posts. Luckily I've only received a few e-mails today. Anyway, sorry I didn't make that more clear.

Re: a fix to your virus problem

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I was only trying to help. Also, just for your knowledge, you don't have to open the pif file, I never open files in e-mails, and I certainly didn't this time either. Also, you must remember that those of us computer idiots who are not in the field do not know about this worm. It has not been on the news in Canada, or at least around where I am until just yesterday. Yes, there were warnings about the blaster virus, but not this worm. Our main concern has been about the black out and power shortages lately.

In short, I am sorry. I was just trying to let you know about my experience with this stupid thing. I thought I was being helpful, but it appears that my post was an insult to your intelligence. I didn't mean this. I'll just mind my own business from now on.

Re: a fix to your virus problem

[tarotgal]

Actually, I thought you DID have to open the pif file... unless there's some really funky html implementation of this thing I haven't run across yet... maybe that's it... the only way for a virus to actually propogate and do anything to your system is if you open a pif file or src file. Hrm... ok, I suppose you could get it from replying to an e-mail with the virus... that's really, really odd. How the heck would it be able to make contact with the proper files otherwise? *confused*

No, you didn't insult my intelligence, I'm glad you were looking out for me. msn and cnn are the only news sources I ever read(never watch tv news) that's where I heard about it. Plus two of our lab computers were infected relatively early on. Sorry that you were too.

Re: a fix to your virus problem

[tarotgal]

Aha... did some more digging... perhaps this is what you're talking about? In which case, again, you must open the attachment or do something with it

"One tactic that recent viruses seem to be taking is to arrive in your mailbox disguised as a bounce message from an email you never sent. The idea is to make you wonder, "I didn't send that -- why did it bounce back to me?" Depending on where the virus picked up your address, it may even appear to be from a mailing list that is similar to something you already subscribe to. The entire point is to entice you to launch an unsafe attachment, to satisfy your curiosity and/or irritation.

Don't be fooled! The bottom line is, beware of attachments. Anything with an extension like .exe, .com, .bat, .pif, or .scr is
probably a virus. Even something that appears to have a safe extension may have a 'hidden' extension, such as readme.txt.bat."