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techrecoveryWe don't service personal computers. If it's the department chair or an important professor, we may work on a personal laptop. But we don't touch student's personal machines. Ever. So why have I spent the last 2 days clearing spyware infections off of an undergrad's personal machine?
$BOSS: "His mom called, and I felt bad."
Grrrrrrrrr.
He had limewire installed and running under an admin account. Along with Norton. *gazes into the heavens* NORTON!!
It's getting a fresh format and install after I backed up what documents I could find. I fought the spyware, and the spyware won.
I'm really tempted to contact his mother and show her just what I found when cleaning out her little boy's computer. Still think he needs his computer for school mommy?
$BOSS: "His mom called, and I felt bad."
Grrrrrrrrr.
He had limewire installed and running under an admin account. Along with Norton. *gazes into the heavens* NORTON!!
It's getting a fresh format and install after I backed up what documents I could find. I fought the spyware, and the spyware won.
I'm really tempted to contact his mother and show her just what I found when cleaning out her little boy's computer. Still think he needs his computer for school mommy?
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Date: 2008-02-15 03:25 pm (UTC)He said she would need to call $FEARLESS_LEADER, $BOSS's boss. He's not as easy.