Last night when I got into work, my super was working the last bit of Johnny's shift since Johnny has to come in to work OT. He broke the news to me about what went on with the other server yesterday. There was a virus on it and it fucked up the whole network that afternoon. I don't know why it seemed to have started now considering I'm sure that it was on there earlier. What was weird is that server had very little protection on it since it was only supposed to be used for certain jobs we had to print on it. I know that everyone in the printroom is guilty for using it other than work. I never surfed the net on it cause I have the main compy but I will admit I used it to chat on. And since I never gave or received files through it, it didn't come from me. I guess if I want to chat on AIM while at work, I'll start bringin my laptop more often. I know that TC and Johnny used it a good bit to surf around if the main compy was tied up. And since those two are not computer savy nor how to surf the net responsibly, it wouldn't surprise me that they clicked onto something they weren't supposed to. Either an infected site or a pop up that came with whatever site they were looking at. I knew there was something wrong when one night one of them left open the IE window and I saw this funky blocker shit in the tool bar that wasn't there before. Before that, some other shit was downloaded to it that it shouldn't have been. Some pop ups automatically would appear if they had the window open and you couldn't even get rid of it unless you hit ctrl,alt, delete to get to the task manager section.
The network peep found 3 viruses on it and was busting their ass to get it cleared. I mean it when I say that it screwed up the entire building if ppl were using their Outlook, it would black out on them and some other things went on. Man oh man, the network VP was pissed! And now cause of this shit going on, it sure as hell makes the printroom look bad. Then our main boss of what is on the 1st floor sent us all an email about what went on and he was just as pissed. My super even admits he'd seen Johnny and TC use that compy to surf, but even he too didn't know that IE wasn't even supposed to have been enabled on that server.
I'm going to dread it Mon night to see how things went with Chuck (our main boss). I don't want to hear the bullshit that he needs to sit down with each of us individually about what went on and stuff we're not supposed to do, yadda yadda yadda. Though I'm sure that everyone in our building does surf the net, even the higher ups. BUT those that do use the net I'm sure are better prepared on how to surf the net than the ppl I work with. Hell, I still feel paranoid about that virus that is stuck in my Temp net file that I can't do shit about on my side of things on the main compy. BUT the main one we use has protection on it unlike that other server. I wish there was a network person I could tell it to and not make a big deal out of it but I don't see that happening.
I can only wish the best of luck come Mon night. I get tired of being talked down to like a fucking kid cause of other ppl's mistakes.