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Idiot customer wrecks his PC again

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    #11
    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    and I always have to feign surprise that so much p0rn etc has somehow snuck its way onto his machine ... "these people are very clever at getting past anti virus and firewalls".

    THats what I say to my missus when she sees www.bigtitties.com and www.thehun.com in the address bar !

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      #12
      Originally posted by JoJoGabor View Post
      THats what I say to my missus when she sees www.bigtitties.com and www.thehun.com in the address bar !
      You might want to mark them NSFW before someone clicks them without thinking!
      ǝןqqıʍ

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        #13
        Originally posted by Platypus View Post
        In my spare time and for earning a few beer tokens I fix broken PCs, which usually means removing viruses and other nasties they've somehow caught.

        In the workshop today is one from a repeat offender who always seems baffled how this keeps happening to him, and I always have to feign surprise that so much p0rn etc has somehow snuck its way onto his machine ... "these people are very clever at getting past anti virus and firewalls".

        Of course the fact that his internet history is stuffed full of all sorts of material combined with his propensity to click every pop-up which says "873287 viruses detected, click here to download our free scanner and remove it" may have something to do with it.

        Anyone else bother with this sort of tulipe? I suppose it's easy money
        My ex-mrs had a bad habbit of doing that too. Once she managed to screw up a server and it took me nearly a week to fix the damage. She thought it was funny and joked about it with her girlie pals.
        How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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          #14
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          You might want to mark them NSFW before someone clicks them without thinking!
          Wouldn't you think that the names might give them away??
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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            #15
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            Not really - usually about £30 per job
            Once you get a reputation for your cast-iron discretion, you'll be able to put that up. That's the difference between a £30 brasser and a £500 brasser.

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              #16
              Originally posted by JoJoGabor View Post
              THats what I say to my missus when she sees www.bigtitties.com and www.thehun.com in the address bar !
              MrsF was borrowing her friends laptop to check her email a while back. Typed in the "ho" from "hotmail" and "horsegirls.com" turned up as the URL.

              Thinking that it might be something to do with My Little Pony (they have girls at similar ages to mine), she clicked on the link.

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                #17
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                Wouldn't you think that the names might give them away??
                I guessed that from the first one, but not the second

                Mind you, just in case, I opened it in incognito mode
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                  #18
                  My friend does it quite a lot, he does quite a bit of work for a guy who runs quite a big business, he tends to find a fair bit of material on the guy's latop, material of the love that dare not speak it's name.

                  Thing is the guy is a major financial donor to the tory party and will probably stand for parliament at some point.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                    I guessed that from the first one, but not the second
                    Oh, it wasn't just me then (I thought perhaps I'd had a sheltered upbringing)

                    tim

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Platypus View Post
                      In my spare time and for earning a few beer tokens I fix broken PCs, which usually means removing viruses and other nasties they've somehow caught.

                      In the workshop today is one from a repeat offender who always seems baffled how this keeps happening to him, and I always have to feign surprise that so much p0rn etc has somehow snuck its way onto his machine ... "these people are very clever at getting past anti virus and firewalls".

                      Of course the fact that his internet history is stuffed full of all sorts of material combined with his propensity to click every pop-up which says "873287 viruses detected, click here to download our free scanner and remove it" may have something to do with it.

                      Anyone else bother with this sort of tulipe? I suppose it's easy money
                      Have thought about it.

                      How do you get your customers?

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