Sweet LordFollow

So i get phone call my sister wants to go out and do something today so we are going around, i buy us a quick dinner and we take food and head back to her place cause she wants me to check out her computer because its been acting funny.

I looked at it and didnt know where to start, got ad-aware going and got a total of 800+ (thats right eight hundred!!) spy ware related stuff off. Then i spent next hour deleting close to 2 gigabytes of share ware games. Then i uninstalled 30 day trial of McAfee that had expired in 2002 and installed Norton Anti Virus 2004. I got all the music from every file sharing program that they had which was 3-4 into one file, got rid of the ones they had and got half decent one on.

Gave them my copy of Age of Empire 2 and BF:1942 to keep them busy, installed those. Also got them a firewall and set it up, did virus scan and removed some petty stuff, and then just organized start menu and desk top so they didnt have such a mess.

Im now her hero but whew, glad im not tech support or anything like that for a job.

My mom's computer is equally fuggered. My brother's had her run ad-aware, and that's done nothing. She's run every program on Norton's, and that's done nothing (she says Norton's makes it worse). I've offered to buy her a new computer since hers is as old as a dinosaur (it used to be my old computer. I've gone through 2 more computers since then, so hers is about 6 years old now).

Hers is beyond repairing. I've offered to buy her a new computer (her monitor is fine. She just needs new hardware), but her stubborn self doesn't want to lose all of her files (which probably won't transfer to a new harddrive because her computer can't even reboot!)

Sometimes I wonder if people should go through a "this is how many times per year you need to upgrade and clean out your computer" class before given the responsibility of actually OWNING a computer.

HAHA Computer Education

Leads to Computer Driving license ;)