So are you, like, the computer dude or sumthin’…?

This morning my friend emailed me about the recent event that just took place at his workplace. I seriously couldn’t stop laughing after reading his email.. It was just too funny and sad at the same time. So I decided to post it here (and yes, I took out all the references to him, his company, and all that crap). So here it is…

So, remember that pot-smoking temp who last month approached me and said, “Are you the computer dude? Dude, my computer’s broke.”

Well, about an hour and a half ago i get an urgent call from my network security consultant. He is freaking and – since he is normally cooler than the other side of the pillow – when he freaks, there is cause for concern.

It seems a computer on our network with a certain IP address has been camping at myspace.com, become infected with a nasty trojan through a backdoor, and all keystrokes on that machine are being recorded and transmitted… And that machine accesses an important database. After feverishly hunting through the network, i discover and unplug her machine; trojan horse network traffic immediately goes dead.

As i start to run the virus scan on her machine, she returns from lunch. I inform her that her machine is compromising security and that i have pulled it from the network. She looks at me then and says, “So does that mean i can’t access hotmail?”