So some people at work have been receiving email sent by the MyTob Worm, and like good little children they followed my previous 5 years of warnings and ignored them and deleted them. Until yesterday.

My antivirus logs suddenly started filling up and I was receiving failed mail responses from our mail server. I looked up the user and called her. I asked her if she was trying to open an attachment, and she says, “Yes, see? I keep trying but it won’t open.” I wanted to kill her.

I found the virus removal tool, and also proceeded to clean up these damn websearch toolbars and the related spyware/adware that goes with them. I then had to repeat this process on another computer that still is receiving error messages from a program every couple of minutes or so. I told him he’ll have to live with it for now, as he’s the one who installed the crap in the first place.

I’ve now requested revocation of email use, until the users pass a test. Let’s see what happens.