[inilbowly]

I hate

I Hate

I HATE

Internet Security 2010.

Some stupid home user was browsing on their laptop last night and got hit with it.

Oh god was it a pain to get rid of.

3 users had it here at work, so I was wondering how they all got it. My guess is either an infected email attachement (the AV on our Domino server should have caught it), or more probably a pop-up that they clicked on when they shouldn't.

So, I spent 3 hours cleaning it, only to finally kill it, but have a damaged login process that got me stuck in an infinite login/logout loop.

Finally said screw it, re-imaged the machine, and rebuilt the applications from the start.

Easier that way.

nearly 8 hours messing with this crap.

I'd rather have open heart surgery while I was awake without anesthetic.

All thanks to some users who don't bother to read the email warnings about it that we regularly send out.