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If I Ever Catch ...
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... one of the twits (sp) who write 'amusing' computer malware/adware he will be unable to find his head unless he searches for it up his bottom.
I've just spent nearly three hours of intense techie work, rescuing my poor neighbour whose computer had been rendered unusable by a browser hijack.
All she had done (on Friday) is click on one of the many "We have found 1532 potential problems in your PC - click here to solve them" links that pop up from time to time even on the best regulated machines.
Avast would have stopped it - but some halfwit had removed the copy that I had installed for her and replaced it with McAfee - which was about as good as a chocolate fireguard. She was in tears by the time I got home today to help her - unable to even email her grandson on his birthday, as she had promised.
The hijack was all very cute and took a lot of unpicking before I could get her back to some sort of online normality.
Some (rudewordforladiesparts) had taken a lot of time and effort to build the malware and make it very difficult to remove. He probably felt a big man when boasting about it to his nerdy, spotty, socially inadequate friends.
But if I ever hear him (or on of his peers) talking about similar cleverness, I will not be responsible for my actions.
grrrrrr dave
I've just spent nearly three hours of intense techie work, rescuing my poor neighbour whose computer had been rendered unusable by a browser hijack.
All she had done (on Friday) is click on one of the many "We have found 1532 potential problems in your PC - click here to solve them" links that pop up from time to time even on the best regulated machines.
Avast would have stopped it - but some halfwit had removed the copy that I had installed for her and replaced it with McAfee - which was about as good as a chocolate fireguard. She was in tears by the time I got home today to help her - unable to even email her grandson on his birthday, as she had promised.
The hijack was all very cute and took a lot of unpicking before I could get her back to some sort of online normality.
Some (rudewordforladiesparts) had taken a lot of time and effort to build the malware and make it very difficult to remove. He probably felt a big man when boasting about it to his nerdy, spotty, socially inadequate friends.
But if I ever hear him (or on of his peers) talking about similar cleverness, I will not be responsible for my actions.
grrrrrr dave
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Not asking for help methyl - I've been through the machine pretty forensically, taking out the malware, the redundant anti-virus and the existing copies of all browsers at file level, before re-building a clean browsing environment and checking with clean AV and Malware installs.
I'm an old techie hand and know what I'm up to - just having a bit of a rant about the idiots who write this stuff and the damage they cause.
I'm an old techie hand and know what I'm up to - just having a bit of a rant about the idiots who write this stuff and the damage they cause.
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