I remember when I still lived close enough to my parents that my dad thought nothing of calling me up to come fix his computer for him after he borked it. I kept telling him to steer clear of the porn sites and to stop clicking on everything that pops up on his screen, and to stop changing the settings I put in place. I had locked down his computer on him to keep him from being stupid, but he reformatted it to get around what I'd done. That was my last straw - don't call me to fix the damn computer if you refuse to listen to what I am telling you not to do. Especially after he ended up with a boot sector virus that completely borked his machine.
Last I heard he was fired us a custy by yet another in-home tech...this makes number 7 now. One for each year it's been since I moved away. And he won't go to FutureChop because they 'cost too much' and he doesn't like what they do to his computer. Which is reformat the works and causing him to lose his piles of downloaded porn. And yes, it is porn - he's got a 'bit' of an addiction. Any time I went up to fix his computer I found multiple folders of porn, and his browsing history was primarily porn sites. I'd be nice and scan them before transferring them over to a CD if it was clean, but most of the files gave virus warnings so I dumped them. Which only served to piss him off more.
Ugh.
Last I heard he was fired us a custy by yet another in-home tech...this makes number 7 now. One for each year it's been since I moved away. And he won't go to FutureChop because they 'cost too much' and he doesn't like what they do to his computer. Which is reformat the works and causing him to lose his piles of downloaded porn. And yes, it is porn - he's got a 'bit' of an addiction. Any time I went up to fix his computer I found multiple folders of porn, and his browsing history was primarily porn sites. I'd be nice and scan them before transferring them over to a CD if it was clean, but most of the files gave virus warnings so I dumped them. Which only served to piss him off more.
Ugh.
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