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Nobody wants to be caught looking at explicit materials on the computer, especially at work. Yet, most technicians have a story resembling some sort of awkward moment shared between them and a customer or client. But sharing that moment with the CEO?

All you have to do is visit one site or open one spam e-mail and the flood gates are broke down into the wonderful world of the unmentionable. And the worse thing about it is constant pop-up reminders and more e-mail spam of your brief sinful moment. What you do in your own home is your own business. You've heard the expression, "Don't bring your work home with you." Well, don't bring your home to work either, especially if you run the whole show!

Viruses come in all shapes and sizes. Some delete or change the content of your files, some replicate themselves and send nice e-mails to everyone in your personal address book, and then there are some that have this knack for knowing the exact moment to ruin your career.

The occasional explicit material viewer would pop up and leave the company quicker than he was hired. And this was on average once or twice every few month's, until the Y2K scare. Every talented virus creator was working overtime in hopes of some sort of anonymous fame. One such talent emerged and hit the lottery with his or her brilliantly coded virus.

I was a little shocked when the trouble tickets kept pouring in with the same complaint. No file damage, no missing files, no system errors, and really no problems at all, except for one minor change: the computer's name. All computers that are set up in an intranet atmosphere are given a name so it is easily distinguishable from other PC's over the net created within a company. Front desk 1 or Computer Lab 9 is usually the "style" in which a computer's name is decided upon. Only this wasn't the case anymore, not by a long shot.

Every single computer (over 6,000 PC's) shared the same structure type name and a hyperlink below it. Upon clicking this hyperlink, you were re-directed to a folder located on a computer somewhere on campus. Oh boy, a needle in a hay-stack. The style the computer names were changing to was something resembling this:

Clone of KingPervert 0000001

The 0000001 was a mere counter. The computers ranged from 0000001 to 0006002 showing the IT department that there were 6,003 infected PC's. The content in the folder we were redirected to was for lack of better words, extremely interesting. There were thousands of cookies, web addresses, pictures,

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