Archive for January 27th, 2009

January 27th, 2009

Another day in IT

For those of you that know me, you know I work in IT. I also had an extremely tiring week last week.  Today started in the same manner, except the network was running. Last week, the network totally crashed. Every 18 minutes the firewall would reboot. While I am in IT, there are specialties in IT. I tend to hate networking and choose to never work in it. But I had no choice. I basically got a self taught crash course in our firewall and our network setup.  Three days of overtime with no lunch, I found that two possible pcs had a trojan or virus on them.

Today, I tackled those two pcs. One of which had 23 viruses and trojans on it. 23!! How do you even get that many? This is a person that I’m pretty sure doesn’t surf on the Internet, so basically it must have been an email. But still 23? No wonder our network crashed.

I will be confirming that everything is fine tomorrow and things should be back to normal. One rough week, but I learned alot about our setup.  At least I know I could fix and completely re-do our network if I had to.

Hopefully starting tomorrow I can get back to the world of GA again. ^_^