So, as you can tell, I'm back online now - though not fully. Until we get the basement sorted out (read: less full of junk, sawdust and contractors), we only have Kirsten's laptop hooked up to the 'net on a little table in the upstairs spare bedroom. It's actually kind of nice having this small station here, with the cablemodem flashing merrily beside me, and a lamp on the left lighting up the birch tree outside.

I was rudely introduced to the filth that is cablemodem traffic this afternoon. I'd hooked Kirsten's laptop up to the 'net, then ran downstairs for 5 minutes to talk to her. When I got back, Norton Antivirus had a HUGE message up about a virus found on the system, which it stalled to awaite my decision on what to do.

It turns out the laptop was the victim of the OPAServ worm. 5 minutes. I'm pretty sure I'm clean now, but I have Process Explorer and TCPView running, just in case.

When I first hooked it up, I did so without thinking; it's normally nicely firewalled away from potential problems. As a result, I didn't even think of putting a firewall on this thing. There's one now: Sygate.

Ugh. Another thing on top of an already full pile.