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I just delete the shortcut to IE and watch them panic.

Why resist the urge?

My sisters ended up doing that to my parent's PC.
I don't even know why I try to fix up their PC, when I know they'll just fill it with clutter again...

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 2:35am by Kirby

So many would fail.

You have no idea.

So far my favorite person I've been able to deal with is the "I spent a semester as a CS major and now I know everything guy."

Had one come in a while back like this who was adamant on the fact that his pc had a virus and he had scanned it and couldn't find anything. I spent 5 minutes booting into safe mode, installing and running malware bytes and let it scan. Found about 30 infections over the scan and then I sat on his machine for an extra day just because he was a know it all ****.

Moral of the story: PC techs are usually trolls.

I have got to watch the Boondocks.

Whenever my mom calls me to help with her laptop, I open up Internet Explorer to see half the screen covered with toolbars. I somberly disable as many as I can, knowing that like some kind of hideous hydra, by removing one you only allow two to take its place upon your return.

The good news is that eventually you will reach a point in that career path where this doesn't happen very often and people will actually defer to your experience instead of insisting that they know better than you do about your job. I still occasionally get someone who'll question why we put restrictions on fileserver space when "I could just buy a couple terabyte disk at Fry's for a hundred bucks!", but that's about it.

Then again, I work with civilized operating systems and don't deal with viruses.

Depending on policy requirements, I usually go ahead and advise them to do just that. Go buy your terabyte USB hard drive, and use it all you want. But don't come back to me asking for a restore when **** goes haywire and your job is on the line.

I've tried to get my father to switch to anything besides IE... I swear building my own rocket and moon lander would be easier...

I switched my dad's wireless router from wep to wpa2 sometime back cause he's a beyond paranoid when it comes to his computer. Well little did I know he doesn't broadcast his ssid from his router cause it's "more secure." I got this phone call a few days later which he just pretty much yelled into the phone about how I broke his wireless router and I need to fix it immediately.

Even after I explained to him that he would need to reconnect to the wireless manually once because the security changed and the computer sees it as a new ssid he claimed I broke it and forced me to put it back to wep.

He uses zonealarm still as a firewall and I'm pretty sure he's stuck on how awesome he thinks adaware is, I'm such a proud son.

EDIT @ Joph: Turn that **** off. Odds are you don't need Java Release 6 Versions 1-29 as it is.

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 6:42pm by ArexLovesPie

I know more than most FE's and some IT people... I HATE calling the help desk because I have done everything they suggest. Then I wait on the FE who can't help me because if it isn't network related (or that my computer is ANCIENT) I have fixed it already. Some of us do know better.

If I'm not mistaken, Norton is the suggested anti-virus software of our very own, Kaolain.

Last night, AVG said that one of my R packages had a virus. Not just me, but a few other folks in the class too. Had to disable the antivirus to do our assignment...