Computer Users, Part Deux (And Dualie-Hex Update)

Computer Users, Part Deux

Remember back in May when I wrote a quick blurb about how my computer users at work "cause me no end of frustration some times"?  Well, today I'm reminded of that observation.  This time they aren't complaining that things are slow, however.

It's the classic office story.  While I can't really fault the person responsible since this is very typical (and even anticipated) behavior, they are the direct reason for why the following happened:

1)  User receives strange email in a foreign language with "attachments".
2)  User clicks on attachments, not noticing anything strange.  They are strange, of course, but it takes more familiarity with this sort of situation to know why.  All the attachments are just HTML links in the message body, and they not all only point to the same URL but point to an obviously suspicious one like shfsdhsdfgh.34y83qnhhdfjh.com
3)  User's computer is infected with (an admittedly weak) virus, and their address book is spammed with the same message they received.

It's a wonder how a Portuguese message manages to spread into the English-only speaking world, but it happened.  Oh well.  Time to play cleanup.

Dualie-Hex Update
I ended up having to refund my dual socket F motherboard.  The second socket didn't appear to work, and that severely hampered my dual hex-core system project.  Newegg wanted $35 for "restocking" the broken piece of shit when all that should be happening to it is throwing it into a dumpster.  In case they do try to pass it off to another customer, however, I've included a note inside the box informing them of what is wrong.

Hopefully Newegg won't notice and it will save the next guy they try to pawn it off onto some time.  After all, they supposedly function test every "open box" item they sell.  Either they never bothered to test mine or they are completely incompetent and only tested the first socket.  It's probably why the original owner punted it back in the first place.  No telling how many hands it has passed before coming into my own.

It's probably just a genuine lemon motherboard.  One of the RAM sockets was even soldered in cocked at like a 15 degree angle.  QC at Supermicro needs some attention.

Anyway, I RMA'd the board and ordered a brand new retail box one with next day shipping.  Today will be the day it arrives.  Hopefully it was indeed the board itself instead of a dead HT link in one of the $500 CPUs.