oldbloke's mutterings

Good one last night!
That couple seemed really nice, so glad it came right for them.
Ok there are a couple of dodgy bits in the design, but I like it a lot more than Kevin seemed to.
If I ever embark on a huge project, I want that builder!

Just had a woman in complaining about stuff wrong with her laptop. As far as I could ascertain, she had several messenger services she didn't want, Norton not cleaning 5000 viruses, and wanted her IE home page changing. So I added the latest McAfee SDAT to my USBstick and we fired up her machine.
It didn't have Norton. It had a fully up-to-date McAfee. I couldn't find any viruses on it, either.
So I set the home page, took all the messenger stuff out of the startup sequence and off the IE toolbar, and did scans with SpyBot, AdAware, and HijackThis just in case.
Nothing of note.
I really couldn't tell what it was that had been upsetting her, it seemed to start up and run just like any laptop anywhere to me.
I originally typed laptrop there, something like a caltrop but it's a computer that makes you lame

Then some chinese kid came in, hard to tell from what he said exactly what his problem was - apart from having paid for McAfee Security Suite, which sucks, when he could have got McAfee VirusScan or Sophos AntiVirus from us for nothing. Turned out he has (at least) MyTob. And the Symantec tool doesn't see it in normal mode. I really don't have time today, so I've told him to come in next week for the full paid 2 day cleanup job. Itll be interesting to see if he does.