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I Are Computer Problemated
I've been on Guy and Nikki's computer a lot this week. It's in a very sad state of affairs. They aren't overly computer savy and as such haven't taken care of their baby as they should have.
- the last virus scan was run in April of 2002; there were about 10 viruses
- the virus program wasn't set to automatically scan downloads, e-mails... nothing
- the virus program had 56 updates which hadn't been downloaded
- spyware had taken over their computer spitting open the cd drives and informing them that they needed to download a special program to fix this problem
- once I utilized the spyware removal program that they had already paid for, I deleted over 100 spyware programs
- their 20gig harddrive is 19gigs full
- there were some 500 temp files
- the trash had over 1000 files in it
To their credit, I'm impressed that they own a spyware removal program and anti-virus program. Also, the hard drive was defragged and scanned 3 months ago (rather than 3 years). They are very pleased that I'm cleaning things up for them. They need more RAM also, but I'll settle for reversing the countdown to imminent self-destruction.
| December 24, 2003 08:11pm | 
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how about a firewall too?
you know my fav:
http://www.zonealarm.com
joat | December 24, 2003 9:53PM
and Windows Update too, yeah Windoze Update...
joat | December 24, 2003 11:46PM
yeah. I'm trying to decide how much to do for them.
nomad | December 25, 2003 7:29AM
I discovered that their spy removal program was way out of date and their subscription has expired so I downloaded ad-aware. It found an addtional 117 spyware objects. damn! some lucky businesses have been having a hay day with this computer.
nomad | December 25, 2003 7:43AM