11% of people believe spyware is a star wars gadget
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surprised? why? just take some average persons comp and run some AV or anti-spyware on it....
friend once asked me to clean his comp, i come there, clean it, install FF and TB and what he does?... deletes them, continues to use IE and in 10 days calls me again. i come to his home, look at comp and ask him why he did it, he says "well, i like those toolbars in IE"....
i just said "never, ever call me if you have comp problems again" and left.....
friend once asked me to clean his comp, i come there, clean it, install FF and TB and what he does?... deletes them, continues to use IE and in 10 days calls me again. i come to his home, look at comp and ask him why he did it, he says "well, i like those toolbars in IE"....
i just said "never, ever call me if you have comp problems again" and left.....
BWWAAHHAHAHAHAHH! Damn, you should have deleted NTLDR from his harddrive just for good measure while you were at it.silence said:
I've had a few of them, that's why I bought my "No I won't fix your computer!" t-shirt.silence said:
I once told a lady that her computer wasn't infected with any viri and was just junked up with spyware and she freaked! She kept insisting she simply MUST know who was spying on her and why, whenever I tried to explain to her that it wasn't really personally aimed at her and was just a way of data mining/collecting she started going off about how there should be laws or warnings against it.
I told her another good way to stop it would be to educate herself about it and how to prevent it, and probably a whole lot easier than her solution.
On the brightside, she never called me again to fix her 'puter.
(I like being rude to people who I never want to see again, it's VERY effective.)
Not a problem!silence said:tell me about it...
See, by them being so damned annoying to me and ignoring my subtle hints that they are indeed being very annoying then I figure they cross the line from "being annoying" to "being rude"....and once they're into the rude zone I figure I can give as good as I can get.
I always say it very nicely and with a sincere and kindly smile, but it shuts them the fuck right up.
ShootMyMonkey
Veteran
Back in my office in college, we'd often get some support calls that you wouldn't want to imagine. My jaw dropped to the floor when I learned that the "cup holder" thing wasn't an urban legend -- yes, I got the call. The worst was when the engineering labs had issues with several keyboards having keys sticking and a few of them shorting out (these were old keyboard that didn't have the rubber sheets), and we eventually traced it back to some guy who went to porn sites in the lab and... well... very much enjoyed it... I basically told the guys, "Yeah, you might want to throw those keyboards away, and look into stockpiling plastic covers. Oh, and wear rubber gloves when you toss them."
After a while, we took photos of everybody who worked the desk with mangled angry sneers on our faces and put them up on a variety of posters describing the symptoms of "Post-Technical Support Disorder."
After a while, we took photos of everybody who worked the desk with mangled angry sneers on our faces and put them up on a variety of posters describing the symptoms of "Post-Technical Support Disorder."