Idiot customer wrecks his PC again

[TheFaQQer]

ah, stu

you got me.

milan

[interested]

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

Yep - I have exactly the same scenario as above and all sorts turns up in his history - p0rn, escort sites, the lot. He has also given his credit card details out to dodgy websites - basically the guy is a virus writers/scammers dream. I despair sometimes, I really do. But it's a very profitable 'account' for me.

I also support a girl who has 2 Macs - the only thing I've ever had to do was install more memory and Time Capsule plus Mozy. Not my most profitable account

[gingerjedi]

Idiot

+1 ...You should build up a post count of at least 500 before you can start spouting elitist comments like that.

[oracleslave]

+1 ...You should build up a post count of at least 500 before you can start spouting elitist comments like that.

Flipping support monkeys. Haven't you got a programming for dummies book to go and study

[gingerjedi]

Flipping support monkeys. Haven't you got a programming for dummies book to go and study

I have some on order but in the meantime I need to finish 'Server 2003 for dummies'.

[oracleslave]

Server 2003

Oh Dear