The real kicker was the fact that our AV solution was Norton A/V, mandated and password protected so it couldn't be un-installed, despite this being my home machine, but the corporate IT that weekend had dictated that endpoints had to be Symantec AV, to be granted access, who had just taken over Norton. I'd tried to get the trial version of Symantec on my machine to no avail, hence my hunt around the world network to find an access point this policy hadn't been rolled out to.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
