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End luser strikes again!!

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ryan256

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I've delt with some stupid people before... but this guy displays new hights of stupidity. Worse still is he's a PhD teaching college classes.

PhD: I need some help. My computer isn't working.
Me: Ok, could you be more specific? What is it doing its not supposed to?
PhD: Its making strange noises and I can't get it to do anything.
Me: Hmm.. well let me come down and have a look at it.
*I walk down to his office*
Me: Yeah you've definitely got a problem here. You're computer is infected with a virus.
PhD: Oh no... how bad is it?
Me: Well... I think I can clean it out.
PhD: How long will that take? I have to give an exam shortly and I need to print out the test.
Me: I'm not sure, probably about 20-30 minutes or so.
PhD: You're gonna have to do it faster than that the exam starts in 5 minutes.
Me: I'll try. I wonder why it wasn't caught by viru..... oh, virus scan got disabled on your computer somehow.
PhD: Oh yeah. There was a game I saw in this email I wanted to play. But everytime I downloaded it virus scan kept deleting it. So I turned virus scan off.
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I had to take a walk before I strangled the guy.
 
Stupid virus scan. If it didn't delete games that got emailed to that guy he never would've gotten a virus!
 
I hate when the virus scanner tries to stop my video games!

Edit: Oh and this is why most corporate virus scanners allow you to set a password so that settings cannot be changed unless the password is supplied.
 
people like him will keep you in a job. Phds are funny people. They can be totally brilliant in their fields, but you get them out of their enviroment and most start to flounder. I guess it must take a pretty singular mind to get a doctorate.
 
I just charged some jackass $25 to fix his broken keyboard. Turns out he wasn't willing to bend over and plug the damned thing in properly before calling me out.
 
Thats not as bad as the guy who kept getting a message from his AV program telling him he had a virus. He was convinced the AV program itself was infected and uninstalled it.
 
Update:

I got the virus cleaned out. Just had to delete some registry entries and files from the windows directory and system restore.

*As I'm walking out the door*
PhD: Oh, hey you think you could help me get this game to work?

rh71: Its a university. On days they don't have class some of the professors might not even show up. You think the dean will care if they play a game on their computer?
 
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