Another day, yet another virus or worm or whatever gets through the mail scanners at Monash. Yet again, people run the attachment — for whatever reason. Feels like banging my head against a brick wall as we battle to keep the technical anti-virus measures up-to-date and yet staff, supposedly technically literate staff, persist in clicking on anything and everything that comes in the mail.

On a related, but slightly light-hearted note, a cow-orker sent me a link to the following article: OCD and the Cycle of Virus Doom By John C. Dvorak. It seems to explain a lot, both in the propogation of computer viruses and the persistent use of mobile phones by motorists…

To make up for the nonsense that came spouting out of the supposedly “technical” mailing list at work, here’s the latest bits of text from my spam. Frighteningly, they seem to make more sense than some of the official emails I see at work…

Any gonad can buy an expensive gift for boy from mating ritual, but it takes a real ski lodge to living with cheese wheel. Where we can single-handledly caricature our girl scout. When you see about cup, it means that over scooby snack feels nagging remorse. And confess the dark side of her scooby snack.

Most taxidermists believe that around squid mourn microscope of ballerina. Unlike so many waifs who have made their tattered cowboy to us. For example, spider of indicates that cowboy of pee on cup defined by. Patrice, although somewhat soothed by eggplant for and girl related to. Most dahlias believe that graduated cylinder related to tenor a big fan of inside sandwich.