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Reaped What They Sowed
We have a family who comes in frequently to both my jobs. Both parents are losers, honestly. They both are "medical" professionals who write prescriptions for each other or for themselves, and the husband tends to come in stoned, while his wife is usually drunk. Plus they let their dog run loose in the store.
The mother tends to come into my other job (where we fix computers), and whine about how her "darling, precious, oh so intelligent" son is always putting "violent rape" pictures on her computer, which she lets him use. She likes to ask us for suggestions on how to keep him from doing so, but shoots down every single one. I always want to tell her to actually parent him. She can't put a password or parental controls on, because "he can get past those in a heartbeat," and she "doesn't want to limit him." And asking him to stop, and telling him it "hurts her feelings" doesn't work. Keep in mind this kid is 13.
Well, he got a little of what he deserved last week. According to the lead tech, they brought in the laptop for a virus removal. It seems her "precious darling" wanted to "see how viruses worked." So he downloaded about 15-20 to a folder on his desktop named "Virus Samples."
The viruses did work, alright. Made the computer completely unusable, and nothing was backed up. The tech took pleasure in doing a system restore. Bye-bye data!
I'm sure he didn't learn his lesson, and he'll probably try on another network. At least the school (my alma mater, no less) already knows to keep an eye on him after he tried to download the rape pics to one of their computers, so that's one avenue closed to him. (Someone reported him after he bragged about doing that in public.) My guess is he was going to try to infect someone's computer. He deserved the backfiring.
The topic is plural, because we had a second case this week. This kid, however, the tech actually took some pity on. Same age, far different attitude. He said he was a moderator on a forum, and they'd been having trouble with a spammer who was continually posting a link from various IPs.
He volunteered to download the file and see what it did. Keep in mind that his only computer was his mom's laptop. While he did scan it with McAfee, he admitted that it wasn't up to date. He also said that he didn't really know what he was doing when it came to computers. The file did turn out to be infected with a virus. He *begged* us not to tell his mom the truth.
We charged him the diagnostic fee, and the tech confirmed the boot-sector virus' presence. Last I heard, he was to be given the choice of having us fix it or letting his friend restore it after we saved his data. I haven't found out yet which he chose. At least HE seems to have learned his lesson.
And this is what keeps us techs employed.
The mother tends to come into my other job (where we fix computers), and whine about how her "darling, precious, oh so intelligent" son is always putting "violent rape" pictures on her computer, which she lets him use. She likes to ask us for suggestions on how to keep him from doing so, but shoots down every single one. I always want to tell her to actually parent him. She can't put a password or parental controls on, because "he can get past those in a heartbeat," and she "doesn't want to limit him." And asking him to stop, and telling him it "hurts her feelings" doesn't work. Keep in mind this kid is 13.
Well, he got a little of what he deserved last week. According to the lead tech, they brought in the laptop for a virus removal. It seems her "precious darling" wanted to "see how viruses worked." So he downloaded about 15-20 to a folder on his desktop named "Virus Samples."
The viruses did work, alright. Made the computer completely unusable, and nothing was backed up. The tech took pleasure in doing a system restore. Bye-bye data!
I'm sure he didn't learn his lesson, and he'll probably try on another network. At least the school (my alma mater, no less) already knows to keep an eye on him after he tried to download the rape pics to one of their computers, so that's one avenue closed to him. (Someone reported him after he bragged about doing that in public.) My guess is he was going to try to infect someone's computer. He deserved the backfiring.
The topic is plural, because we had a second case this week. This kid, however, the tech actually took some pity on. Same age, far different attitude. He said he was a moderator on a forum, and they'd been having trouble with a spammer who was continually posting a link from various IPs.
He volunteered to download the file and see what it did. Keep in mind that his only computer was his mom's laptop. While he did scan it with McAfee, he admitted that it wasn't up to date. He also said that he didn't really know what he was doing when it came to computers. The file did turn out to be infected with a virus. He *begged* us not to tell his mom the truth.
We charged him the diagnostic fee, and the tech confirmed the boot-sector virus' presence. Last I heard, he was to be given the choice of having us fix it or letting his friend restore it after we saved his data. I haven't found out yet which he chose. At least HE seems to have learned his lesson.
And this is what keeps us techs employed.
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