he should burn the computer. but prior to the fire, he should contact and warn all in the neighborhood that he is releasing live viruses into the area.
the alternate, which is probably better, is to put the thing into a plastic bag with a large rock. take it to a religious place and have them cleanse it(non-judeo-christian religions best), then throw the thing into the deepest part of the Chesapeake. At 07:10 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote: >A friend has an older Dell laptop with Windows XP that won't connect >wirelessly to internet. Maybe other problems, don't know. He knows nothing >at all about computers, so he asked me for advice since I know next to >nothing. He believes his problem is caused by viruses since he sees a message >that his laptop has 178 viruses. Don't know where the message comes from, >maybe an expired virus program from Dell or maybe a virus program that he paid >to download from the web. He doesn't know what he downloaded, if anything, >and he threw away all the CDs that came from Dell, including OS, since he >didn't know what they were for. > >I told him to go to a local computer builder (not chain repair place) who >might have an old Win XP OS on hand, tell them that he will pay to have the >disk wiped and the OS reinstalled (ask price first), and say that if the >computer won't work afterwards he will make no demand that the computer be >fixed for that initial price. The computer is old enough that a high price to >fix isn't wise, and he has no data that needs to be saved. > >Should I have told him something else? > >(I could try to fix for him but I am not that dumb.) > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
