The silver lining.

Yesterday was a looong day.

A few machines in the main library were showing signs of the Sasser virus, yet none had the registry key edits or files associated with the virus. They kept rebooting and rebooting, yet supposedly were clean.

We finally figured out the necessary patch to put on the machines to keep them from rebooting and got it and the latest virus updates installed, yet they still scanned clean. Very odd.

You'll notice I used the pronoun "we" in the previous paragraph. That's because the whole department got called in. All but one of us showed up, even the guy who was on his way back from a camping trip in Yankton, SD. If anything, it was encouraging to see the department come together and solve the problem instead of moaning and complaining about getting called in on the weekend. We never had to call in the whole group on a weekend before, and although it worked well - I hope we don't have to do it again.