First, let me tell you about my run yesterday. It was humid, but felt great, and with all this rain, a lot of bushes are overgrown and covering sidewalks. I will admit, I brushed up against many of them. I didn't know I was collecting hitchhikers. I came home to shower and head to work, when I saw all these black dots around my waste, after I toweled off. They apparently burrowed in the band of my spandex while I was running, piercing into my body to feed. So gross. In a panic I didn't even have time to use tweezers. I simply used my nails and pulled the monsters out. Ouch. But I put on Neosporin and bandaids. It's not like I was in a wooded area or near deer-infested parts. Tick-Tock. Tick-Tock. Had to Get to Work.
That's the way the morning began. I had crazy dreams the night before, and when I woke up I shot out of bed ready to go. In fact, I felt like I was standing more erect that usual, although all day I kept having a stiff neck.
Here's why. Several teachers and families contacted CWP Fairfield to let us know our website was hacked. At the time of year when kids are signing up little Johnie and sunshine Alice, they were being directed to Viagra ads and unsightly websites. The joke all day was CWP became the Connecticut Weenie Project, but I wasn't laughing. We pay our website host a lot of money so we can't be hacked.
Alas, we were hacked by Viagra.
When I called for tech-support, they sent me to an agent in Singapore who really loved saying Viagra as many times as she could. "Oh, we know about you Viagra problem. We get calls on Viagra all da time. We help you with your Viagra issue. We fix your Viagra troubles for you."
This cannot be made up.
She then says the issue may be fixed in a couple of days. A couple of days?! No. Now. Why do I pay them what I do? She then says that the problem could be easily fixed for $$$ dollars more a year. "They can fix your Viagra problem immediately."
Weird. I said, "Okay," and suddenly I had a technician in the United States. He explained that hackers are moving faster than web developers can keep up, so my mainframe host for CWP does not have the ability to keep the Viagra hackers out. For $$$ more a year, we can full-proof the website. I asked, "Isn't that what I was paying them for?" and he replied, "Well, yes. But technology has advanced so quickly that they can host a site, but not maintain it agains malware and viruses."
So, when you searched Little Lab for Big Imaginations...well, you were taken to an explicit site off of Google. I can only imagine what parents were thinking.
I told the guy, at least we're not the hack, so people searching for Viagra find themselves on our website, but he didn't think that was funny.
On a happier note, Susan LaFrance and I got out our microscopes and magnifying lenses out so we could do Workday budgeting for State and Federal grants. The University's new accounting software prints in microscopic lettering and it's impossible to read unless it is blown up immensely. The online font isn't any better. If anyone could see us looking liking two old badgers cruising over numbers today they would have laughed.
Of course, I told her we might be able to straighten up our posture if we visited the CWP site and ordered some Viagra.
Monday was spectacular. Can't wait to see what Tuesday brings (yes, there's sarcasm there).
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