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CraftyChicken
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- May 3, 2007
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Venting some frustrations, that I think a lot of people here can relate to. Over the weekend, I reformatted an old box, ran updates, installed Antivirus and Spybot and setup weekly automated tasks for backup and virus checking. That's my bare bones setup, which has worked great for our house with more computers that mammals (I'm including the two dogs in that). During Lunch I dropped off the clean computer at my brother in-law's. It's an old Opteron 165 gaming box that belonged to my son, but he got a new one for Christmas and Das Wife complained about him complaining about "computer troubles."
After lunch I did some of that working stuff outside of the office, and just now returned to find I had a message from my dear brother from another mother. Was it a thank you for the free computer and your time showing me how to use it? Nope, it was a plead for help, "I've been infected with a virus and can't do anything. It's running now but it's asking for money. I thought this was all supposed to be free?"
So there you go, after a tutorial on how to use "The New Windows 7."
On when and when not to accept a user account control action.
On how NOT to get a virus in the first place...
less than three hours after having a new computer this guy has managed to get infected with the good old fake anti-virus tool. Keep in mind, this computer once belonged to a teenager for 4 years and has not once been infected with anything, despite all the teenage curiosities that come with a broadband connection and hormones. I'm not saying he hasn't had problems, but good policies mean the system acted more like a typhoid Marry and less like a leper with chronic necrosis and a case of the measles (Ok, there was the Steam incident where he gave his account information to a website to download 'free' games, but that doesn't count for this story.)
So there's the lolz. If you are related to an semi-unemployed online gambler whose idea of a steady job is selling t-shirts at high school tournaments for a Ukrainian business tycoon, stay away... far far away. It's just not worth it, the couch isn't that uncomfortable.
After lunch I did some of that working stuff outside of the office, and just now returned to find I had a message from my dear brother from another mother. Was it a thank you for the free computer and your time showing me how to use it? Nope, it was a plead for help, "I've been infected with a virus and can't do anything. It's running now but it's asking for money. I thought this was all supposed to be free?"
So there you go, after a tutorial on how to use "The New Windows 7."
On when and when not to accept a user account control action.
On how NOT to get a virus in the first place...
less than three hours after having a new computer this guy has managed to get infected with the good old fake anti-virus tool. Keep in mind, this computer once belonged to a teenager for 4 years and has not once been infected with anything, despite all the teenage curiosities that come with a broadband connection and hormones. I'm not saying he hasn't had problems, but good policies mean the system acted more like a typhoid Marry and less like a leper with chronic necrosis and a case of the measles (Ok, there was the Steam incident where he gave his account information to a website to download 'free' games, but that doesn't count for this story.)
So there's the lolz. If you are related to an semi-unemployed online gambler whose idea of a steady job is selling t-shirts at high school tournaments for a Ukrainian business tycoon, stay away... far far away. It's just not worth it, the couch isn't that uncomfortable.
