ughhhhh

[DrPizza]

At the wife's parents' house for New Years Dinner...

Wife offered to have me fix the computer, because it has viruses.
"AVG says no viruses, Norton says 1, and Symantec Pro says 2"

?! You have 3 antivirus programs running!?

Started the going online process roughly 14 minutes ago... As soon as IE came up, I could see it's filled with comet cursor, smiley central, etc.

"here's one of the problems that's slowing your computer down" I said
"I'm not concerned about the speed... don't be deleting things. I just want the viruses gone.
Oh, and on dial-up too...

Took 5 minutes to get logged into Anandtech.

ughhh.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

You're probably poisoning the forums just by posting here. 😛

- M4H

 

[n0cmonkey]

That sucks. I don't do freebies for most of my family. 😛

 

[Pliablemoose]

My father in law is running 3 also.

I gave up trying to help him about a year ago.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Sucks. 🙁

My family is always volunteering me to fix things, and it's not like I'm some kinda computer pro so it takes forever to fix anything. I mean hell, 95% of the time I go into it not having a clue what I'm doing (what these forums are good for), and it just takes a little googling to find your answers. So lately I'm like fvck it, I tell them to go to google and figure it out for themselves. Except the parents though, cause they bought me all this crap. 😀

 

[Toastedlightly]

I've been volunteered at my grandpa's, but he pays me (much to my distaste, but meh)

 

[Kalvin00]

My grandpa's computer had about 800 adaware objects.. the antivirus hadn't been updated in 500 days. :Q

Runs fine now 😀

 

[CubanlB]

I ran adaware on my friends computer and it found 1500 OBJECTS!!!!!!!! Ghaaa, and we where doing some "video editing" On this celeron box with all that. IT WAS RIDICULOUS!!!!

 

[biostud]

I have my parents computer in a close grasp.

 

[InlineFive]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Seriously, it detects 99.99% of the virus' out there and it can find a good portion of spyware and adware too.