TrailBeast
AKA Mopars4us on Youtube
I do (own the company) computer service and repair for a living and am one of the top techs in the area for Malware, Virus, and Windows OS trouble shooting.
We get people all the time that come to us for Malware/virus infections and we clean thier systems up and give very effective tools for prevention and removal.
Today, for example I have a guy come back after two weeks saying his Firefox home page used to be MSN and suddenly it changed to "Buump Me.com" and won't stay if he changes it back to MSN.
Also he complains that these "OUTRAGEOUSLY OFFENSIVE" popups are always coming up in his Firefox page no matter where he goes on the internet.
Obviously he is infected with something again right?
Well, sort of in a way but what was causing it all was a program that he apparently downloaded that installed an extension in Firefox called NetVideoHunter.
Now normally, NetVideoHunter is a legit/semi legit free program for downloading video's from Youtube, Myspace and a multitude of other sites with videos on thier pages. (Basically a .flv capture program) for Flash videos.
Well, again I have to say most things that say free on the internet come with a price of some kind.
Usually advertizments, popups, and even other un solicited programs.
In this guy's case he was using it to download **** video's, so guess what his popups were geared towards?
His complaint was "I just had this computer cleaned up two weeks ago, and here we are again. Isn't there something you can do to keep this from happening, or do we need to take it to someone else?"
Now, this question makes a firestorm of responses fly through my head like "If you insist on downloading **** and don't learn to protect your system, or at least learn what can happen when you do, then don't ***** at me that you keep doing the same thing and get the same result."
Or, Even free **** has a price.
Or, the problem is you looking up and downloading ****, and you would still get it infected even if you took it somewhere else.
What I actually say is, "yes it was infected again" and this is the charges this time. (then hand them the bill)
Then they say "How does this keep happening?" to which I reply "Usually from certain websites like recipe sites, sports sites, celebrity sites and/or other questionable sites" (And sometimes for no apparent reason at all)
I try to avoid directly pointing out that the 150 temp files in Windows history that have **** site addresses like "teenagewhores.com" to this 65 year old guy in front of his wife is directly why he is infected again.
AND that the video downloader he uses to download video's of Father/Daughter incest is why he gets the "OUTRAGEOUSLY OFFENSIVE"
Pop ups.
Sometimes it's best to just "Take your medicine son" and not try to blame your computer repair person for not doing the job right.
We get people all the time that come to us for Malware/virus infections and we clean thier systems up and give very effective tools for prevention and removal.
Today, for example I have a guy come back after two weeks saying his Firefox home page used to be MSN and suddenly it changed to "Buump Me.com" and won't stay if he changes it back to MSN.
Also he complains that these "OUTRAGEOUSLY OFFENSIVE" popups are always coming up in his Firefox page no matter where he goes on the internet.
Obviously he is infected with something again right?
Well, sort of in a way but what was causing it all was a program that he apparently downloaded that installed an extension in Firefox called NetVideoHunter.
Now normally, NetVideoHunter is a legit/semi legit free program for downloading video's from Youtube, Myspace and a multitude of other sites with videos on thier pages. (Basically a .flv capture program) for Flash videos.
Well, again I have to say most things that say free on the internet come with a price of some kind.
Usually advertizments, popups, and even other un solicited programs.
In this guy's case he was using it to download **** video's, so guess what his popups were geared towards?
His complaint was "I just had this computer cleaned up two weeks ago, and here we are again. Isn't there something you can do to keep this from happening, or do we need to take it to someone else?"
Now, this question makes a firestorm of responses fly through my head like "If you insist on downloading **** and don't learn to protect your system, or at least learn what can happen when you do, then don't ***** at me that you keep doing the same thing and get the same result."
Or, Even free **** has a price.
Or, the problem is you looking up and downloading ****, and you would still get it infected even if you took it somewhere else.
What I actually say is, "yes it was infected again" and this is the charges this time. (then hand them the bill)
Then they say "How does this keep happening?" to which I reply "Usually from certain websites like recipe sites, sports sites, celebrity sites and/or other questionable sites" (And sometimes for no apparent reason at all)
I try to avoid directly pointing out that the 150 temp files in Windows history that have **** site addresses like "teenagewhores.com" to this 65 year old guy in front of his wife is directly why he is infected again.
AND that the video downloader he uses to download video's of Father/Daughter incest is why he gets the "OUTRAGEOUSLY OFFENSIVE"
Pop ups.
Sometimes it's best to just "Take your medicine son" and not try to blame your computer repair person for not doing the job right.
