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Apr. 16th, 2009 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skywaterblueToday, after breakfast, I stole the car from my mother and took my brother out hiking at Red Rock. Then we went to the library because it was library amnesty week -- but also so he could use the internet. While he did that I read a book called 'American Buffalo' about a guy who went out to Alaska, tracked down and killed a Buffalo. I always like reading about that sort of thing.
Alas, while we were out the Cox Cable guy came out, and apparently being GROSSLY UNQUALIFIED, spent two hours knocking around before concluding that the problem was the tower to my mother's disgusting virus infected computer and manually hooking my brother's computer up to the firewire.
I wish I had a job where I made shit tons of money while still being stunningly inadequate at the job I was hired to perform.
Alas, while we were out the Cox Cable guy came out, and apparently being GROSSLY UNQUALIFIED, spent two hours knocking around before concluding that the problem was the tower to my mother's disgusting virus infected computer and manually hooking my brother's computer up to the firewire.
I wish I had a job where I made shit tons of money while still being stunningly inadequate at the job I was hired to perform.
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Date: 2009-04-17 02:05 am (UTC)You and my hubby both. He's being laid off at the end of the school year (he's a computer teacher) and he has better qualifications than the head of the department.
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Date: 2009-04-17 02:52 am (UTC)For the Virus Infected Tower...
Date: 2009-04-17 12:27 pm (UTC)I have my 'fav freebies' list:
AVG Free antivirus: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
MalwareBytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org <- Great for cleaning off spyware and trojans. No long rigamaroles of steps to take and registry entries to change for most problems.
ASquared "Free": (This thing is Colon Blow for a computer. Takes forever, but has over 2 million signatures.) This may only be a 30 day trial...but they're pushing the free angle, so I don't know if this is a different one.
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
And of course, the one, the only:
SpyBot: Search and Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html <- the immunization system is great on this, and teatimer, while sometimes annoying, has saved me from a few costly mistakes.
These are my weapons of choice when working on friends computers. :)