Have you ever tried to fix your mother's computer?

I just got back from my mother's place in NY. She was complaining that her PC was slow. I told her I'd take a look at it. Big mistake.

Apparently she believes all those pop-up that say things like "warning, your internet connection is slow", etc. Her PC was just filled with spyware. After a fresh bootup the taskmanager went on for pages and pages, with multiple instances of most programs.

So I clean it up for her and get the PC to the point where it boots up in 40 seconds instead of 6 minutes. I try to tell her what spyware is and how to avoid it, then AS I'M WATCHING HER she clicks on a pop-up and installs more spyware.

I mean, as the saying goes I try to teach a mom to fish so she can fend for herself, but how can you teach someone who just won't listen?

And the sad part is that this is the second time that I'd done this.

Reminds me of a co-worker who wanted to replace his 3 month old GF4MX card with a GF FX5200. I told him that it was about the same speed, sent him a few links to the review sites and benchmarks, and he still went ahead and did it.

Some people should just have a sign tatooed onto their foreheads saying "I am an idiot, please victimize me", or perhaps "marketing dept's best friend" or "I am the reason that junkmail and pop-ups work"

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Yeah, when I was 5 my mother was working on a supercomputer in columbia u for some engineering project and I decided she had worked enuf so I took out the power cord. So I fixed it (and got into soo much trouble).

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

That's pretty sad. I think a pop up blocker is in order.

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This was the old school shizzle that I call a supercomp cause it was insane back then and had a ton of processors and what not. It actually ran off u thin wires hooked up to a 9V battery j/k

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Yeah, and the fact that they didn't have an armed guard there to shoot shizzle boy....

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Ummm like a workstation?

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A cluster? A cluster with one power cable?

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Yeah, there's a lot of those people in the Netherlands.

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I know exactly what you mean!!!

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