I told him that a boot run was pointless and would take to much time, network resources, and would be costly for those reasons and that a quick scan was more than ample and the asshole fired me.
Claiming "you put this virus on my network"
to which I responded, "no... I just started here (1 week ago) and noticed that the virus definitions were over a year out of date, when I ran auto update I was able to detect several viruses (including a worm) and I have since removed them, it is what you paid me to do as a network admin."
To which he responded "NO WE HAVE AVG, AVG ALWAYS WORKS, WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD AVG."
I then said, "Yes you did have avg but the virus definitions were incredibly out of date offering you almost no protection, you old network or sys admin never configured AVG properly this is not my fault."
he then said, "AVG has always worked, we are fine this is your fault."
keep in mind this is coming from a guy who didn't know what a .XLS file was.
Well, at least IT isn't hurting as bad as the rest of the economy.