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My inbox is currently being spammed by users infected with the Sobig virus. None of the viruses are causing harm to my computer, but the sheer volume of the emails is flooding my inbox and making it all but impossible to recieve real mail from anyone. If you need me for anything, or have emailed me over this past weekend, please assume that my email address at yahoo is out of comission and contact me over AIM or one of the other instant messenger programs. I also have a backup email account at the_pathfinder@hotmail.com which I will most likely be using until I can track who it is who is infected and is sending me the emails, and notify them of it.
September 2nd, 2003
Could anyone who is a Comcast/AT&T broadband customer who reads this please check their computers for the presence of the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus? It is a mass mailing virus which harvests email addresses from files stored on your computer in the following formats: DBX, HLP, MHT, WAB, EML, TXT, HTM, HTML. More information on this virus, including how to find out if you are infected and how to remove it, is available here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm
I'm asking you to do this because the origin of the virus-generated emails which are currently flooding my yahoo account seems to be 12-229-140-165.client.attbi.com (12.229.140.165), which is a Comcast customer, but I haven't been able to narrow that down to a specific person yet as there appears to be a problem with using traceroute to track the IP back to a specific region of the country. (The infected computer may currently be offline or something else simple like that.)
Thank you.
I'm asking you to do this because the origin of the virus-generated emails which are currently flooding my yahoo account seems to be 12-229-140-165.client.attbi.com (12.229.140.165), which is a Comcast customer, but I haven't been able to narrow that down to a specific person yet as there appears to be a problem with using traceroute to track the IP back to a specific region of the country. (The infected computer may currently be offline or something else simple like that.)
Thank you.
Jobhunting sucks. It's not the filling out applications that gets to me, so much as the information asked. Or maybe the answers that I have to give. I look at the data, see it written out in black and white, and I'm forced to ask myself if part of the reason that I haven't had more success with jobhunting in the past is that I don't see myself as worthy of being hired, and that uncertainty about myself is somehow transmitted to those who might otherwise hire me.
Let me elaborate, with a small sampling of data that I'm filling out on applications:
1. Education: High school graduate. Not attending college at this time.
2. Job history from 1998 to present:
a) Assistant Webmaster, my High school, starting the summer before my senior year and ending upon graduation... worked for one year, was paid $400 total due to being strung along with hinted-at bonuses for continued work during the school year. (Originally was supposed to be one-time lump fee for making a website quickly over the summer after previous webmaster left.)
un1) Several months of unemployment, just due to not being able to find a job.
b) US Army... worked for one month, then got an entry level discharge due to admitting I like boys.
un2) Several months of unemployment, mostly due to not being able to find a job and partly due to idiocy of significant other for the first two months.
c) RGIS... also briefly worked there, no longer have contact info for them, left due to a combination of transportation issues and unrealistic scheduling (got more sleep in the army on nights when taking 2 firewatches.)
un3) Several months of unemployment, just due to not being able to find a job.
d) Current "Job", Primary Caregiver for my grandmother and main means of transportation for her and my father. $35 a week plus food, lodging, and job-related expenses. Leaving due to needing to get a life of my own.
3.References (not relatives, business references preferred, otherwise should have known you five years or longer):
a) Supervisor from first job... no contact info known, other than his name and the contact info for the school itself.
b) No other business references, and I can't think of anyone who has known me five years or longer who isn't a relative that I have any means of contacting presently.
See what I mean? It kind of lends itself to being used by me to demoralize myself and get discouraged before I've even submitted the applications. That being said, I'm determined not to give into that this time... sure, I got taken for a fool by my first job but that shouldn't reflect negatively on me. Sure, I made a boneheaded decision to enter the army knowing its position on homosexuals, but I honestly believed that don't ask don't tell means just that, a belief which was shattered by the presentation on the UCMJ shown after my arrival at the reception batallion. All of the things that sound bad have reasonable explainations for, and in focusing on them I'm completely ignoring the other sides of the application which make me look good: I touch-type, I have quite a few computer-related skills, I speak a decent amount of conversational german and I could easily brush up to true fluency again, I have a demonstrated ability to take a signicant amount of responsibility upon myself and fulfill those responsibilities efficiently, I'm good at making things more efficient, I'm constantly trying to learn new things and challenge myself, I'm building my skillbase on a regular basis, I have experience working (on a volunteer basis) with injured animals, I have experience successfully running both a monthly newsletter and a website for a nonprofit organization for rock and mineral enthusiasts, and I even took two college level courses over the summer between 7th and 8th grade as part of a special program, one in Geology and one in Writing.
When you get right down to it, I have skills and qualities which make me a damned good job candidate compared to a lot of the others which might be applying for these positions. It's believing that myself and making them see it too that's the trick, and that's what I intend to learn how to do now.
Wish me luck. :)
Let me elaborate, with a small sampling of data that I'm filling out on applications:
1. Education: High school graduate. Not attending college at this time.
2. Job history from 1998 to present:
a) Assistant Webmaster, my High school, starting the summer before my senior year and ending upon graduation... worked for one year, was paid $400 total due to being strung along with hinted-at bonuses for continued work during the school year. (Originally was supposed to be one-time lump fee for making a website quickly over the summer after previous webmaster left.)
un1) Several months of unemployment, just due to not being able to find a job.
b) US Army... worked for one month, then got an entry level discharge due to admitting I like boys.
un2) Several months of unemployment, mostly due to not being able to find a job and partly due to idiocy of significant other for the first two months.
c) RGIS... also briefly worked there, no longer have contact info for them, left due to a combination of transportation issues and unrealistic scheduling (got more sleep in the army on nights when taking 2 firewatches.)
un3) Several months of unemployment, just due to not being able to find a job.
d) Current "Job", Primary Caregiver for my grandmother and main means of transportation for her and my father. $35 a week plus food, lodging, and job-related expenses. Leaving due to needing to get a life of my own.
3.References (not relatives, business references preferred, otherwise should have known you five years or longer):
a) Supervisor from first job... no contact info known, other than his name and the contact info for the school itself.
b) No other business references, and I can't think of anyone who has known me five years or longer who isn't a relative that I have any means of contacting presently.
See what I mean? It kind of lends itself to being used by me to demoralize myself and get discouraged before I've even submitted the applications. That being said, I'm determined not to give into that this time... sure, I got taken for a fool by my first job but that shouldn't reflect negatively on me. Sure, I made a boneheaded decision to enter the army knowing its position on homosexuals, but I honestly believed that don't ask don't tell means just that, a belief which was shattered by the presentation on the UCMJ shown after my arrival at the reception batallion. All of the things that sound bad have reasonable explainations for, and in focusing on them I'm completely ignoring the other sides of the application which make me look good: I touch-type, I have quite a few computer-related skills, I speak a decent amount of conversational german and I could easily brush up to true fluency again, I have a demonstrated ability to take a signicant amount of responsibility upon myself and fulfill those responsibilities efficiently, I'm good at making things more efficient, I'm constantly trying to learn new things and challenge myself, I'm building my skillbase on a regular basis, I have experience working (on a volunteer basis) with injured animals, I have experience successfully running both a monthly newsletter and a website for a nonprofit organization for rock and mineral enthusiasts, and I even took two college level courses over the summer between 7th and 8th grade as part of a special program, one in Geology and one in Writing.
When you get right down to it, I have skills and qualities which make me a damned good job candidate compared to a lot of the others which might be applying for these positions. It's believing that myself and making them see it too that's the trick, and that's what I intend to learn how to do now.
Wish me luck. :)
