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How the AI made me suffer

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 I was having lunch with my wife at a restaurant when I got a call from someone from work. A technician dealing with network security told me my office computer was infected with some nasty virus/worm/trojan. There was not much I could do, and being a Friday afternoon, the person who called told me they would do nothing else till Monday morning. The purpose of the call was to make me aware my computer was now isolated in a different VLAN where I would have almost no network services. I immediately felt uncomfortable and worried. What could I have done wrong for this to happen? I tried to avoid all the common pitfalls of not seeing myself in this situation, but I was not doing well enough. Thankfully, the meal was delicious, and I could park the problem for a while. I woke up early Saturday morning to shop and could not resist stopping by my office and checking my computer. As I was told, only a few services were working, I was getting a different IP address and had no access to any ser