Last week was not what you would call a good week. My good friend and colleague, Gary, lost his 12 year old daughter after an almost two year battle with cancer. (I will post more about that later.)
On Wednesday I was doing the Facebook thing and got FB messages from a former student, and from the state Baptist exec., claiming to have tagged me in a photo or video. I bit, clicked on the link, and was hacked/phished, and totally embarassed. The worm/virus/trojan began sending vulgar messages to all my FB friends. Several replied immediately, and I got a warning message from a colleage soon after, but it was too late. A few FB friends were as curious as I had been and were infected as well. I am grateful that some friends knew I would not send them a suggestive or vulgar message and immediately deleted the message.
It took our IT guru most of Thursday and Friday to clean up the mess on our computers. I hope we are clean now.
It all began with my curiousity. I wanted to see what these friends had identified.
That was my downfall. I didn't check it out more thoroughly, and I, and many others, paid a great price. Be sure that I will check it out now before I click. If it is in any way suspicious, I will delete. I may miss a few good ones, but I will certainly eliminate a multitude of troubles.
Curiosity killed the cat, and it almost killed my computer and those in our office.
Monday, June 8, 2009
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