I'm not terribly pissed at them, honestly. The sneaky thing about the virus is that it appears to be an e-mail bounce with a log attached. People want to know what's going on so they open it.

But really, how important is the e-mail that you send out? Does Aunt Mary REALLY need that latest set of kitten pictures? Can your friends get through the rest of the day without you forwarding them little fucking friendship poems? I think the answer here is a resounding not very, no, and yes respectively.

Don't open fucking attachments that you aren't 100% sure of. A proper email bounce will NEVER require you to open a zip file to find out what happened.

I have a main point that I'm not sure how to convey without sounding like a self involved asshole, so here's what happened to me yesterday.

At about 4:15 a user sent me an e-mail asking me about an e-mail warning and what it was. I said it was a virus and they should delete it. I decided I should send out an e-mail to everyone since I'd seen a few of these getting through. As I was writing this e-mail, another person asked me something similar. I looked at it and told them to delete it and I would check into it. I finished the e-mail and hit send. In about 12 seconds later there were 3 people in my cube. One was there to tell me he opened one of them JUST BEFORE I sent the warning e-mail. The other two were there to make smart assed comments.

Then my phone rang and I got an Instant Message. People were now getting e-mail from people within the company with infected attachments (because a few of them opened the origional attachment). They looked like they were coming from the network Admin. I sent out ANOTHER all employee e-mail that I was aware of the e-mail coming from the admin and to, once again, delete them. Then about 4 people called me, e-mailed, and messaged me to tell me they were getting them from other people, not just the Admin. At that time, three or four MORE people popped in to make smart assed comments.

I decided not to send out ANOTHER e-mail about the mail coming from people other than the admin, but then another slew of people told me they were getting them so I sent out yet another e-mail. Then I started to get the e-mails like "HURR HURR U MUST HAVE VIRUS BECUZ UR SENDING OUT ALL THESE VIRUS EMALIS LOLSERZ@!". Then the administrative assistant stopped over to make a smart ass remark and ask me about her home computer.

All I would've needed to make this more stressful and annoying would be that fucking intern coming over and asking me why the printer says LOAD LEGAL. It fucking says "LOAD LEGAL" because you keep fucking trying to print on legal even through I set your fucking defaults to letter.