Our office has been over-flowing with bagles this week. No, not the delicious cinnamon-crunch bagles, the vicious email virus bagles. On Tuesday I found 700, yes seven hundred, infected files on one of our ministers computers. He can't imagine how he got infected ... He just sat there baffled as the scanner kept popping up file after infected file. He can't imagine how this happened! He's only got a million spyware programs and yahoo messenger and all sorts of other wonderful wide open backdoors. Of course I try to explain this to him. But we all know how that conversation goes .... "But I didn't download a virus. I don't open those attachments from people I don't know. Yes ... I do have a few programs intalled - but wouldn't it ask me first before putting files on my computer?"
:censor: Breathe.
A new mail server has been put in place this week ... and anyone who wants to send us mail now has to meet all these new qualifications. Its a good system - but its going to be a pain in the beginning because all these people with email addresses from domains who aren't properly setup as FQDM are going to get bounced. (All reputable ISP's send mail from their FQDM ... but some people have domains and email set up through small crappy little companies and so those emails are bouncing all over the place.) Trying to explain this to a group of people who don't even know what a domain is, much less how spam can be managed and prevented ... well ... it's a headache. :headache: Heads start exploding so you try to not tell them more than they need to know.
Sigh. Do I get paid enough to deal with this stuff? (Quick answer ... definitely not.)
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