My wife's dear aunt L, a truly fun lady to be around, should be banned from ever touching a computer again. I have been to her house several times these last few months getting her system cleaned of viruses and trojans and stuff. I get it clean, she does stupid stuff, and two weeks later she calls again. Well, around 8:30 yesterday evening, the phone rang and it was aunt L......."Tim, I can't do anything with my computer. I was on the phone with my son, and this box kept popping up and I hit okay and now there is nothing on my screen. I thought it was my anti-virus...it looked like my anti-virus....it was the same color as my anti-virus....but now all my things are gone and my mouse won't move." I had just cut my hair and was about to hit the shower...so I tell her that I will be over in a half hour to an hour and will take a look at it. I get there, and just as she says all her things (Icons) are gone...nothing on the screen but her wall paper. The mouse pointer is smack dab in the middle of the screen...and it won't move. I hit CTRL ALT DELETE and up pops a message telling me that Task Manager has been disable by the Administrator. I hit the power button and power down the system. Fire up a cigarette, hit the power button and try to go into Safe Mode. Can't even get in to Safe Mode. Tried several times...no entry via Safe Mode.
I look at aunt L and tell her...."You've done it this time ya old bat...you finally killed the poor thing." She looks at me with a look of pure panic....and before she can go off the deep end...I tell her that I will fix it but that it will involve bringing her computer home and spending several hours formatting the hard drive, reinstalling Windows, updating it fully, installing a anti-virus system. She asks how much I want for doing all that...I tell her 895 million dollars, which is the going price for that sort of thing.
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Now aunt L says that she uses her computer to play some games (not online games, just on her system), read the local newspaper on line, and read world news on Yahoo....and that's it. I have had to fight some pretty nasty bugs off her system...really nasty bugs....bugs that I don't believe that she has picked up reading Yahoo news or the local paper on line. I think dear 70 year old aunt L is going to some pretty nasty sites and looking at some pretty nasty stuff..cause that is were most of these really nasty bugs come from....or so I've been told.
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I look at aunt L and tell her...."You've done it this time ya old bat...you finally killed the poor thing." She looks at me with a look of pure panic....and before she can go off the deep end...I tell her that I will fix it but that it will involve bringing her computer home and spending several hours formatting the hard drive, reinstalling Windows, updating it fully, installing a anti-virus system. She asks how much I want for doing all that...I tell her 895 million dollars, which is the going price for that sort of thing.
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Now aunt L says that she uses her computer to play some games (not online games, just on her system), read the local newspaper on line, and read world news on Yahoo....and that's it. I have had to fight some pretty nasty bugs off her system...really nasty bugs....bugs that I don't believe that she has picked up reading Yahoo news or the local paper on line. I think dear 70 year old aunt L is going to some pretty nasty sites and looking at some pretty nasty stuff..cause that is were most of these really nasty bugs come from....or so I've been told.
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