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    Andy Brummer
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    Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

    I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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      Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

      I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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      Jim Crafton
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      Damn I'm glad I've never had to deal with this. What the heck do people to get all this stuff on there systems? Do they really just randomly click on everything in the browser?

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        Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

        I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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        Ian Shlasko
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        Ouch... Hey, at least you can do it in person, though... I have a friend on the other side of the country... Her old XP box has started to croak (Half the time, when it boots up, it blacks out and crashes), and she's getting hit with viruses... Turned out her antivirus was using outdated definitions, she wasn't patched, she wasn't behind a firewall or router (I made her buy a cheap router just for the NAT), and she wasn't scanning for malware. Right there, that's several hours to fix up.... Now try talking someone through that over the phone!

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          Ouch... Hey, at least you can do it in person, though... I have a friend on the other side of the country... Her old XP box has started to croak (Half the time, when it boots up, it blacks out and crashes), and she's getting hit with viruses... Turned out her antivirus was using outdated definitions, she wasn't patched, she wasn't behind a firewall or router (I made her buy a cheap router just for the NAT), and she wasn't scanning for malware. Right there, that's several hours to fix up.... Now try talking someone through that over the phone!

          Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

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          Andy Brummer
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          Ugh, reminds me of my tech support days. Though, it was in the days before broadband, so we'd mail them a floppy with av software on it and have them boot off that and scan the drive, either that or a little fdisk /mbr and they'd be back up and running. I'd hate to have to fix all the modern day malware over the phone.

          I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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            Damn I'm glad I've never had to deal with this. What the heck do people to get all this stuff on there systems? Do they really just randomly click on everything in the browser?

            ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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            No idea, but I just put a fresh install of windows on my wife's system a couple of weeks ago, including unregistering all the adobe software and re-registering it so it would activate. I don't want to have to go through that again.

            I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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              Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

              I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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              Tom Delany
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              Yikes! Makes me glad a I bought that Mac (less viruses)! :~

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                No idea, but I just put a fresh install of windows on my wife's system a couple of weeks ago, including unregistering all the adobe software and re-registering it so it would activate. I don't want to have to go through that again.

                I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                DaveAuld
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                So was you wife's laptops anti-virus not working and/or up-to-date then :)

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                  So was you wife's laptops anti-virus not working and/or up-to-date then :)

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                  Andy Brummer
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                  It was her work computer, so I got to send it off to her I/T department for that one.

                  I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                    It was her work computer, so I got to send it off to her I/T department for that one.

                    I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                    Tomas Brennan
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                    That sounds more fun then installing win95 on floppies across 100 computers!!!! Now that's hell!!! :laugh: Kind regards, Tom.

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                      That sounds more fun then installing win95 on floppies across 100 computers!!!! Now that's hell!!! :laugh: Kind regards, Tom.

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                      Andy Brummer
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                      Ugh, I hope you were able to pipeline that.

                      I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                        Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

                        I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                        Gandalf_TheWhite
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                        :laugh: Bad Luck :Solace: Learn From others Experience Thanks for alerting. I will keep in mind this case. :thumbsup:

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                          Why did I let my mother in law connect her laptop to my home network? #$#$#@!$#@ viruses. My wife's work computer went down first, now I'll have to check everything. :doh:

                          I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                          AspDotNetDev
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                          I just got a nasty little virus on my computer that pretends to be a virus scanner, pops up a ton of browser pages, and that won't let me open anything (including the task manager and the command prompt). Already disconnected that computer from my network. Methinks I'll be backing up files (assuming safe mode works) and reinstalling Windows this Christmas (while working from my laptop).

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