This is a really hard way to learn to keep your personal accounts off of work devices. That has to hurt.

This is the first time you noticed you caught a malware. I wouldn't be so confident about never having caught one and Im way more paranoid than you. This one was just really noisy.

You can be the most diligent, tech-savvy, cyber warfare general of nato and all it takes is one second of not thinking and a click...

Was it an actual zip file that managed to exploit some vulnerability in the program that opened it or was it something like "filename.zip.exe" and windows hid the .exe part?

A cautionary tale from the digital trenches. Good luck with the cleanup.

Thanks for sharing. Sorry that happened to you and hope you got everything back in order.

Was it an .exe file that looked like a zip file that you opened? Or was there an executable in the zip file?

This might have been avoidable using a software firewall that doesn't defacto allow outbound connections.

That's a big maybe.

And here I am, emailing password protected zip files to people when the documents are not to be scanned by my mail provider.

Wait so you were logged into sensitive accounts? If you weren't, then your accounts wouldn't have been as compromised?