Not a client, my mother. I just thought this would amuse anyone working with computers.
I HATE having anything to dowith my mother's computer but got roped into replacing her virus protection on Tuesday. Removed the old program (which was stopping her using the computer rather thanstopping viruses), cleaned off something nasty it hadn't caught, and put on a new program.
Wednesday I get an email at work which says that windows has put up an alert saying the virus protection isn't active. "Does it need to be switched on ?". Don'tknow if it was just slow starting up, or if it wasn't running properly, as I hadn't had a chance to restart after installing.
She doesn't check her emails again so she didn't get the reply saying "Yes!"
So I see her in the evening and she asks me again, and I tell her again that it is important that it is switched on.
She stands up and starts running for her computer...
"Um, it only needs to be on when the computer is on".
The look of relief on her face
I still can't imagine what she thought it would do when the computer was switched off
Victoria J
I HATE having anything to dowith my mother's computer but got roped into replacing her virus protection on Tuesday. Removed the old program (which was stopping her using the computer rather thanstopping viruses), cleaned off something nasty it hadn't caught, and put on a new program.
Wednesday I get an email at work which says that windows has put up an alert saying the virus protection isn't active. "Does it need to be switched on ?". Don'tknow if it was just slow starting up, or if it wasn't running properly, as I hadn't had a chance to restart after installing.
She doesn't check her emails again so she didn't get the reply saying "Yes!"
So I see her in the evening and she asks me again, and I tell her again that it is important that it is switched on.
She stands up and starts running for her computer...
"Um, it only needs to be on when the computer is on".
The look of relief on her face
I still can't imagine what she thought it would do when the computer was switched off
Victoria J
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