Re: Excessive spam all of a sudden

Olwyn Mary wrote:
However, recently I had my laptop "fixed" by a local computer shop, because I didn't think I had time to do it myself. Wrong move. It took me longer to fix it my self after I got it back than it would have to have cleaned up the hard drive myself



You mean the guys who F-ed up both my computers last year have moved to NOLA?

The first one came back with a virus program that didn't play well with the one AOL provides free, other unwanted software/upgrades, and the CD/DVD burner still didn't work (he showed me that it played before I took it out of the shop, but it didn't burn when I got it home).

The second one came back with multiple programs removed, essential program component files removed -- even had to re-install AOL because they assumed the dial-up files were unnecessary, "everyone uses wi-fi now". Took me 6 hours just to get to the point that I could check to see if any clients had sent me any work and do the work. To this day, I'm still finding things that don't work properly because some essential subfile was removed. Oh, yeah, and they made some adjustment to the "mouse buttons" so that the set that I prefer to use, you need to hit with a sledgehammer to get them to click -- seriously, full pressure from both thumbs with the laptop set on a solid/hard surface; doesn't work on a soft lap where most people put their laptop. Fortunately, this laptop has two sets of mouse buttons, and the other set still works. Again, when he showed me the computer worked before I took it out of the shop, he didn't show me the part that didn't work. "Oh, the mouse buttons aren't responding because McAfee is loading", and since I was on a tight schedule, I didn't want to wait several minutes for the full boot-up to complete, and didn't realize that the problem was not just McAfee until I got it home, and at that point, would've had to pay another $80 minimum to have them fix it.




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