Because we keep running through dispatchers, I've been covering both the dispatch job at work and my job. It's crazy at times but I can multitask and juggle like no one else here so it's not all bad. Because of all of this, I've been sitting at the front desk and not my desk lately which I'm thankful for. Yesterday my coworker was on my computer (which is fine, we all use the different computers) and he says something's wrong with it. I go over and take a look and there is a pop up taking up the whole screen saying that the FBI has locked the computer and oh, for $300 you can get it unlocked. There's no getting out of the pop up, it actually has locked the computer. We shut it down and waited for IT to show up. The guy says it's the worst virus they've been dealing with for a while. Someone on campus had a bunch of stuff non backed up and took the risk of paying just to get their computer unlocked. They knew it was a scam but theirs was for $500. It worked for them but apparently it doesn't always.
Thankfully since I've been working at the other computer, anything I've used in the last 6 months or so has been transferred to this computer or to the server so I can access it from either desk. The only thing I might lose is my newer email archives but that's my own fault for not remembering to back up to my flash drive when I archived last. And of course this happened the day after we just got one of the officer computers back from being rebuilt because of viruses. I was fairly amused about the "official government notice" popup with the KMart logo on it (it's the scam where you have to go buy a moneypack from a local store and use that on the pop up)
Thankfully since I've been working at the other computer, anything I've used in the last 6 months or so has been transferred to this computer or to the server so I can access it from either desk. The only thing I might lose is my newer email archives but that's my own fault for not remembering to back up to my flash drive when I archived last. And of course this happened the day after we just got one of the officer computers back from being rebuilt because of viruses. I was fairly amused about the "official government notice" popup with the KMart logo on it (it's the scam where you have to go buy a moneypack from a local store and use that on the pop up)
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