So, yesterday, a colleague of mine offers to give me some documents on cosmology he had found. Given that I'm taking a class in cosmology this semester, I was enthused, and agreed. He passed me his USB key, I transferred the data to my netbook (a Windows box), and all was well until within the hour I received an email from McGill stating that my computer had been caught port sniffing and that my wireless access was being revoked. Turns out he'd uploaded me a copy of WORM_DOWNAD.AD.
There was then a pleasant little list of things to do to remove viruses (ie, install virus scan, scan. If !virus_remove_success() then format.) but nothing with respect as to how to get my access restored. It's not the end of end of the world; I'm pretty sure I zapped the virus (manually deleted some files from a Linux boot, thank you flash drives), but thus far I've yet to receive a response to my inquiries as to what I can do to get my netbook back online.
I'm off to the lab to clean my telescope lenses during my lunch break, then write down the Messier Catalogue coordinates, then get back to work on FPGA programming, as I've been letting that slide a bit more than I should have recently.
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