Friends,

Somehow, on my work laptop, an insidious piece of garbage has attached itself, and Ad-aware and Spybot can't seem to get rid of it (it helps only temporarily). The worst part is, it ONLY comes up when I try to access this site!

Allow me to explain...

About a week ago, when I was taking a mental break from work, I decided to check on LCT. Imagine my surprise when I got a message saying 'ACCESS DENIED' and the message was generated by a SURFCONTROL. Well I was a bit surprised, because there is such a thing as SURF CONTROL (no space) and it is used by companies to bar employees from visiting porn/gambling sites and may be used to big brother people's use of the internet on company time. The thing is, the company I work for does not use SURF CONTROL. Just to make sure, I called IT and they said, that's right, we don't use it, it is not a corporate mandated piece of software. Well, then, what is this SURFCONTROL popping up I asked. I was directed to run Ad Aware and Spybot. It helped for one session, but the next session I was in the same boat. IT is now stumped. It makes me a bit nervous as to what this piece of garbage is, because I am currently on an ecommerce project where I have to be surfing the client's websites (and they are a few of them) very heavily in order to work on my documentation. I made this point very clear to IT, because I wanted to be absolutely sure I was not going to be stopped by doing my work because "something" thought I was surfing around an ecommerce site.

It beats me (and IT) why this is showing up only while trying to access LCT and only on my laptop!!

Anybody have run into the same thing, or any other suggestions since it clearly is a pesky one?

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends ~~M. Angelou~~