Uhh.. okay.

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My cousin brought her computer to us so we could see why the modem wasn't working. This was a week or so ago.. we returned it last Sunday and told her that the modem was almost certainly fried and that she needed a virus checker, pronto. I would have worked on it more but I got absolutely fed up with the thing. Spyware, virus-like behavior, etc. It was running extremely slowly, windows popping up all over the place, and even though it had a connection here (ours) I couldn't really access the internet because of all the junk it was throwing at me. Fifty windows opening and closing and opening again.. even typing in a url sent the thing into a panic and it couldn't actually get there. Completely unbelievable.

She called me the other night to let me know that they had run a virus program and they didn't HAVE any viruses. (Slightly superior tone, since we had said so positively that she had one.) I explained about updating definitions. They managed to work out how to do that and called back tonight, since it found something this time. M talked to her and explained that a virus can really wreak havoc on a computer and make it do all sorts of crazy things and that was the first priority, getting rid of those before getting the internet connection fixed.

Her response? "But it only found eight!"

Rofl.

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I know! She's pretty computer illiterate, but is she also DEAF not to have heard all the stuff in the news and all around her?!