My Doom

Well, it certainly has a Microsoft-ish name, and it certainly behaves like a Microsoft product (ie it takes over your system, slows it down, uses systems resources for its own purposes and hides any functionality away), but the latest variation of the mydoom virus has been moderately irritating - in the space of about 24 hours, some workstations in the office managed to get infected. I actually received an emergency DAT update notification from Network Associates, our Antivirus software provider, at 17:24 yesterday evening; however while I don't believe they may have been particularly quick off the mark, and that the virus was only on a "Medium" alert, the incredible lack of antivirus management within the office is getting very frustrating.

It is only in the last 2 weeks that at work the use of the ePolicy Orchestrator software has been going on, however it is currently only configured for machines on the domain, and the policies in place are somewhat lacking. Ideally, one of our managers whill get infected with numerous virii, at which point we'll be told "something has to be done". Hopefully, at that point, we'll be able to get hold of some decent antivirus management software, that doesn't use netbios, AND will support operating systems other than Microsoft - not because these other OSes get infected, but because they host files which get used by Microsoft operating systems.

Oh, and it's corporate poilicy to use Outlook. Brilliant idea, that one - you can tell THAT was a management decision...