Tech Support, Baby!

by Rachael on April 3, 2008

Yesterday, I moved myself further toward my goal of being a full-time Designer/Coder/Tech Support geek. Sure, I already do the design and coding – but I also love fiddling with computers. I’m not as good at the hardware configurating yet, but I can give your Windows machine a mighty nice tune-up.

I went up to visit my cousin Kim, because her dear hubby had FUBARed their brand-new computer because he was, in his words, “bored.”

Ha.

(Sidenote: She’s not my cousin by birth or family, but she was my cousin when I was married to my first husband; I like to tell people that when we divorced, I took her and now she’s MY cousin. Heehee.)

There’s a really good reason NOT to visit a p0rn site on your family computer, and that’s because for most people, they can’t tell the difference between a virus and a real piece of software. There were Trojans embedded into the registry so deep that they kept respawning when they were deleted.

And I FIXED IT. All they had to pay me was pizza while I was there (because it took me about ten hours to get it done), and gas money home. And coffee.

BitDefender, Spybot, and SpywareBlaster are my bestest friends. If I could, I would take them out for dinner. (And if you haven’t read my two-part series on protecting your computer like a geek, GO READ IT. And bookmark it. NOW! Part One, Part Two)

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zifferent (3 comments) 04.03.08 at 7:48 pm

Have you tried HijackThis!? It’s a very powerful anti-spyware tool.

Made my days working at a High School almost bearable.

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fragileheart (9 comments) 04.03.08 at 10:46 pm

You know, I knew I liked ya for a reason ;) thanks for the links!

fragileheart’s last blog post..Diving in head first

FoxTwo (1 comments) 04.05.08 at 1:09 am

LOL nice work :) I wish I get paid in pizzas when I help my friends out…

gbjazzman (67 comments) 04.07.08 at 12:41 am

You know what is good against Spyware, right? Linux.

I’m just sayin’ :)

gbjazzman’s last blog post..Funniest thing YTMND has came up with in a while

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