What do you do when the computers in your office are infected with viruses? Obviously running a scan on one computer at a time is not good enough since we are all networked and we are going to re-infect each other again. So today, we all had to go through a concerted virus-cleansing process which is by no means simple when you have to take into account twenty staff of whom half are pastoral who are in and out of the office all day and you have to get them all together, and two other floors of computers besides the main office, not to mention the kindergarten computers and staff. We had to plan the time to begin, all of us to do the virus busting at the same time. Internet cables off so that we are totally isolated. All thumbdrives to be formatted and external drives scanned. Remember to update the virus buster before you start! We tried to look on the lighter side especially when the scanning was in process and we could not use our computers, suffering varying degrees of computer/internet withdrawal symptoms, so we moved around checking on each other how much longer we had to wait until the scanners finished deleting the screens of viruses that were scrolling up the computer screens. What a horrible sentence that was, but that's how I felt. Ugh.

Will we be virus free after this? Gabe said, almost like he needed the assurance more than us, "Hopefully... I think so... should be....ought to...."

Interestingly, I probably sent a virus blessing each time to the visiting speakers who brought in their thumbdrives to upload their presentation files. Sigh. On the otherhand, when I peeped at SP's computer, his screen was extremely alive (!!!) with all the trojan horses that were being deleted so maybe he was a bigger culprit than I was. When I left the office, the others were still cleaning up. Some could not start because they had urgent work to complete so they are supposed to be in quarantine, no internet for them until they get cleaned up.