Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Paypal virus
One minute I was paying for my comments subsciption through Paypal, next minute I received an email from my company IT department informing that there's a virus spreading via Paypal email. Can you imagine my horror? I was so worried that I might have infected my work computer, which might then have spread to the whole company through the LAN system, which would put me in deep shit with my boss for unauthorised usage of company resources, I was scrambling to update my virus definitions, scan my computer etc. Only later, when I read that you have to open an attachment in the email to activate the virus, did I heave a huge sigh of relief.