Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry
This went well and Alf saw his handle climbing the league table of SETI@Home contributors.
"One Monday morning about two weeks later I received a phone call from my boss asking if I could come in early as there were reports we had a massive virus attack underway and it was all hands to the deck for engineering," Alf recalled. Alf"put on my best innocent-but-concerned face" to – hopefully – mask the fact he felt fairly sure he was the cause of the problem.
"As war rooms were being readied and conference bridges set up I had to act fast to avert a mass panic, so quickly executed the shutdown code on all the lab kit to return everything to normal and disabled it from running again, carefully covering my tracks by removing it from the network.
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