suspected Outlook virus...

[misterx]

Went down the hall to hook up the wireless, and when I came back to my office I had over a dozen Outlook icons in my taskbar. I took a look... each one a warning box... "Outlook did not terminate correctly, would you like to start Outlook in safe mode?". So I clicked OK to all of them, and then shut off Outlook. It restarted. I shut it off again. It restarted. Uh oh. So I try to google "outlook starts by itself" or similar, but Outlook keeps popping into the foreground. Argh!

So I reboot. Soon as I log in, pow! Outlook. Now I'm starting to freak... I unplug my network cable. I cringe at the thoughts of all the heinous things that might be going on inside my system, and start a virus scan.

It wasn't until 15 minutes later that I notice that the bottom of my monitor is holding down a "special function" button on my keyboard, the one for email, telling it to start my mail client over and over and over again. Yeah, I'm smart. Gawd.

Comments

BAWAHHAHHAHHAHAA!!!

[shazzy1972.livejournal.com]

That about made me pee my pants!!! Tooooo funny!!!

[busychild424.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA DORK!

[cuddlebug910.livejournal.com]

I feel your stupidity. Same thing happened to me once. The computer in my lab started wigging out (just after entering important data, of course). After a solid 10 minutes of panic, trying to restart, etc., I noticed that my notebook was laying solidly on the "enter" key of the numeral pad. Crisis averted, but I sure felt dumb. :)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Been there, done that, felt dumb too! :-p

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

...although it wasn't a notebook, just a regular keyboard sitting on the desk with something innocent-looking and readily ignorable resting surprisingly heavily on the number pad Enter key.