I've Been Attacked!

Okay, this is the IM picture I have to let people know it's me. I guess you can say I'm a simple person, compelled to do certain things, and easily caught. *grin*

But this picture is here only because I'm accessing you guys through my laptop which I'm glad (I think) isn't networked to my desktop, and from which I can't latch onto my stash of pictures. {sigh}

Yesterday morning, I was going about my business, checking routine overnight email. When I was compelled to click on a link (in a routine email) I was immediately connected to a porn site, caught, and my day went downhill from there. Anyone in the world, who didn't know me, would take a look at my computer and believe I had serious moral and ethical issues.

Ugly.

So, I got our IT guy out. Tupper got at least one other call while he was here concerning something similar. A virus is going around, and I wasn't sufficiently immunized.

Are you? (And Mac users . . . don't be too smug. Your day is coming.)

NOTE TO EVERYONE: NEVER, IN A MOMENT OF PANIC, DOWNLOAD ANYTHING ONTO YOUR COMPUTER THAT IS URGING YOU TO DO SO. NEVER. NOT EVER. ASK YOURSELF HOW IN THE WORLD SOMEONE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN COMPUTER. (This is what will be known as a "Tupperism" from this point forward in my life.)

Okay. So how could I use this, fictionally speaking? What my heart desires is a program that acts like a boomerang and attacks the attacker. Wouldn't that be cool? Tupper tells me that in real life, even the most sophisticated protection companies are always about two steps behind the bad guys.

But what if . . .

It's all better with friends.