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  • #16
    *update*

    Oooooh and such a juicy update
    Our banned friend lives in the same house as one of the other regulars, who - of course - had to share the following story.

    Now since he's banned and can't use our computers anymore to watch "his" girls, he got himself a computer (cheap netbook) and internet access. Since he didn't bother to get any protection for his computer, guess what happened? Yep, his precious computer got infected with every malware available. So he went back to the retailer to complain, they obviously sold him a defective product! Yeah, right... The repair center checked and reloaded the factory default image, and they billed him for that! The warranty didn't include user stupity.
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    • #17
      The first of what will be, no doubt, many trips back to the retailer about an obviously "defective" computer..... until he gets banned from there for throwing a fit. Next move after that? Probably trying to recruit some hapless friend/relative into constantly fixing his "broken" computer that ALWAYS goes down for NO reason at all!! EVER!!!!
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      • #18
        It's those *.jpig images.
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        • #19
          And we know already that he's prone to throwing fits worthy of a three year old...

          The regular has promised to keep his eyes and ears open for any news. We're all sure there will be news!
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          • #20
            Quoth Argabarga View Post
            Next move after that? Probably trying to recruit some hapless friend/relative into constantly fixing his "broken" computer that ALWAYS goes down for NO reason at all!! EVER!!!!
            Considering the purpose he uses his computer for, you'd think he'd be happy that it goes down on him.
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            • #21
              Quoth BeeMused View Post
              Since he didn't bother to get any protection for his computer, guess what happened?
              Reminds me of an older 'gent' (and I use the term loosely) back at the ol' computer repair shop where I worked a decade ago. He would bring his computer into the shop like clockwork, every month, to get it fixed up. No complaints, no whining that it wasn't his fault, just dropped it off, paid his hundred bucks or so, and came back that evening to pick it up after he reimaged it. Same reason as your dear friend, here -- nothing but porn, and the system usually wouldn't even boot into Windows by the time he brought it to us.

              It happened so often that we made a custom ghost image *just for his system*, as he would bitch if we put any anti-anything programs on it, because they tended to interfere with his massive porn downloading. Suffice it tosay, we knew better than to connect his rig to the network for any reason unless we had just Ghosted it.
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              • #22
                Quoth BeeMused View Post
                In the end they had to call the police...
                Why? so they could laugh at him too?

                Quoth BeeMused View Post
                Oooooh and such a juicy update
                Our banned friend lives in the same house as one of the other regulars, who - of course - had to share the following story.

                Now since he's banned and can't use our computers anymore to watch "his" girls, he got himself a computer (cheap netbook) and internet access. Since he didn't bother to get any protection for his computer, guess what happened? Yep, his precious computer got infected with every malware available. So he went back to the retailer to complain, they obviously sold him a defective product! Yeah, right... The repair center checked and reloaded the factory default image, and they billed him for that! The warranty didn't include user stupity.
                See I don't get this, I download, I surf porn I go all over and almost never get an infection and I don't have any antivirus loaded but some people can't click two links without getting viruses.

                I have used malwarebytes in the past but not ongoing.
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                • #23
                  Quoth EricKei View Post
                  He would bring his computer into the shop like clockwork, every month, to get it fixed up. No complaints, no whining that it wasn't his fault, just dropped it off, paid his hundred bucks or so, and came back that evening to pick it up after he reimaged it....It happened so often that we made a custom ghost image *just for his system*, as he would bitch if we put any anti-anything programs on it, because they tended to interfere with his massive porn downloading.
                  I'd think it'd be cheaper just to get subscriptions to a couple of porno magazines. Snail mail doesn't carry malware.
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                  • #24
                    XC - it may have been a certain variety he was looking for, possibly something he wouldn't have wanted traced to his IRL address easily. Case in point: my boss was an *ahem* avid fan of the genre as a whole, and even he went "WTF O_O" at some of the stuff this old fart had on his computer. He stopped 'checking the computer for data that should be backed up' after the second visit or so. Based on that, I decided it was best to never see for myself.
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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                    • #25
                      Quoth gremcint View Post
                      Why? so they could laugh at him too?
                      No He refused to leave and kept sitting on the floor. As soon as they showed up, he got up. Rumour has it that the police officers had a hard time not to laugh.

                      Quoth gremcint View Post
                      See I don't get this, I download, I surf porn I go all over and almost never get an infection and I don't have any antivirus loaded but some people can't click two links without getting viruses.

                      I have used malwarebytes in the past but not ongoing.
                      Yeah, but you recognise a "bad" link. Some people click on everything, no matter what.
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                      • #26
                        Quoth EricKei View Post
                        XC - it may have been a certain variety he was looking for, possibly something he wouldn't have wanted traced to his IRL address easily.
                        There is some truely weird stuff out there... As long as there's a market, the porn producers will provide.
                        People with more weird fetishes must have had a hard (or not... ) time before the internet came along.
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                        • #27
                          Our banned friend is a regular at the retailer where he bought his netbook. According to the neighbor he's getting the factory restore about every 3 weeks. They even tried to get a virus scanner installed on his computer, but then he couldn't see his girls...
                          So far he's not banned at the retailer, yet!
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                          • #28
                            Bee, why would they ban him? The techs like having an easy service mark. When I worked at Gateway Country, we had a crew of guys the techs called the perv patrol. The techs would just swap out the HD for a fresh format, then reformat the old one and have it ready for the next mark.

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                            • #29
                              Quoth XCashier View Post
                              Nothing quite like seeing a 70-year-old pitch a conniption fit over a three-cent difference in what the sign said and what the item rung up as.
                              My wife used to work in Cable (as in, Cable TV). She worked in a call center type environment, I believe. She told me she'd get service calls for people (usually elderly) wanting techs to come out an change batteries in their remote, because apparently that's what techs get "paid to do". She told me that they'd refuse to even try to fix the issue themselves.

                              She also told me that occasionally the cable company she worked for would occasionally raise rates a penny or so, and the phones would light up again with people (usually elderly) complaining about how they're on "fixed incomes" or whatever, and why were the rates going up, and so forth...over a penny...
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                              • #30
                                Quoth BearLeeBadenaugh View Post
                                Bee, why would they ban him?
                                Because he's prone to throwing tantrums, I guess.
                                On the other hand... yeah easy money. He must have paid more for support by now than the netbook is worth.
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