twist - 2:31 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

Where a friend of mine works the company allows certain employees to check out laptops for work and the hard drives are key locked and the O/S is restricted to the most basic operations. Once the laptops come back they have to be run through multiple virus scans. Seemed a little harsh when I first heard about it but I guess now I can see why they do it.

I still would consider it a sloppy tech staff to allow a simple port scanning bug to take down a company. Then again, most companies pay their tech staff a tenth of what their useless butt-kissing executives get. A good virus scare can also be pretty good job security I suppose.