Worms

Al has joined the wireless world. I helped him get his Airport talking to his AT&T Cable Modem, as well as his desktop machines. The 802.11 technology is very cool, and I'm happy to see that more people are starting to adopt it, as that means the price will come down. It's not outrageously prices now, but the average joe is still looking at $500 to outfit his house with wireless technology, compared to $100 for a basic wired home network. It's been hectic here at work the last couple of days. We had a few faculty members contract a couple of those nasty Visual Basic Script worms. We've now disabled the Windows Scripting Host on all of the computers in the college, as well as updating a lot of antivirus software. Today, I'm looking into purchasing the Enterprise Edition of Norton AntiVirus, with which we can force virus definition updates from the server-side. These were particulary nasty, as they attacked all the .jpg files in our public server space, and destroyed them all, meaning we had to go to the tape and retrieve backups, only to have another infected faculty member wipe them out again...