I had one son-in-law arrange this for my other son-in-law, and it's been working pretty well.
The alternative is the Dilbert solution - they gave their PHB an Etch-a-Sketch and told him it was his new tablet PC. Lee Douglas <lee.doug...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/27/2009 10:49:07 AM: > IIRC, there's at least 1 app that will let you set up an XP machine > so that it will only boot into a virtual machine (unless you are the > administrator, I presume). You can do anything you want with it but > it always reverts to base when you re-boot. Whatever the app costs, > it'd be cheaper for your customer than what they are paying now... > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jon Harris <jk.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes but it gets old after a while. I am with John and say take away > Admin rights but I would go further and create one user that is so > locked down they can barely get to the web and let the son-in-law > only use it. Telling xx if it returns again don't bother. It would > either wake up xx or at least get him out of your hair. > > Jon > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like a nice way to make some side money for hobbies. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David W. McSpadden > To: NT System Admin Issues > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:58 AM > Subject: Re: What else would you tell this user? > > Hard to say. > I just reformatted and reinstalled factory software 3 months ago so > as far as I can be certain at least 3 months... > xx has a son-in-law that gets on and browses everywhere and doesn't care. > I can work with xx and get xx in shape again. I just hate taking > xx's money when xx isn't the one jacking up the system. > I've had to cut a copy home users off of support because they won't > learn from their mistakes. One lady brought her laptop to me 4 times. > 4 times I had to rebuild from scratch. The 5th time I just didn't > return her calls. I raised my price the last time all the way to > $300 for a reformat and reinstall of commerical apps. > Which is about 150 over my normal. She paid and still got it all jacked up. > Thanks for the responses. > > From: Erik Goldoff > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:51 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: What else would you tell this user? > > is this personal property for the home user, or a system in place > for business purposes ? > > The type of issue xx describes could easily have been a 'drive by' > from a third party web page advertisement that takes advantage of > PDF or Flash vulnerabilities, where the web site host is unaware of > the malware insertion they're accomodating > how current are updates to all the software? > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM, David W. McSpadden <dav...@imcu.com> wrote: > Follow this thread from top to bottom. > What else would you tell this home user?? > > > I don?t understand how this keeps happening I have Microsoft > security running also but I am getting tierd of this junk these > things need to find another home besides mine > From: David McSpadden > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:32 AM > To: xx > Subject: RE: Home Computer > Sure. > From: xx > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:30 AM > To: David McSpadden > Subject: RE: Home Computer > Ok I will try tonight if I cant do you want it back? > From: David McSpadden > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:28 AM > To: xx > Subject: RE: Home Computer > Those pictures are a part of the Trojan/virus/thingy. > Yes if you can get on the internet you can find it by googling for > Microsoft security essentials download. > From: xx > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:26 AM > To: David McSpadden > Subject: RE: Home Computer > So I will just find that on the internet? If I can get on the net > because when I tried last night I couldn?t get around all the pop > ups ( I will get those pics to you asap LOL) So does that mean > someone has been looking at that stuff or is that just the possible > virus causing that to pop up ? > From: David McSpadden > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:19 AM > To: xx > Subject: RE: Home Computer > I think you should send me the naughty pictures for an objective opinion. > Also, I think you should download Microsoft?s Free Security > Essentials virsus/spyware scanner. > It is quick and easy. All you have to do it tell it when and what to scan. > That might find something your Mcafee doesn?t. > From: xx > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:11 AM > To: David McSpadden > Subject: Home Computer > Hi It?s me again?.. I think my computer has issues again I have > been getting pop ups telling me my computer could be infected but it > wasn?t from Mcafee so I ignored it then mcafee would pop up and say > it blocked a trojen so I thought I was ok but last night when I > tried to get into my email naughty pics poped up????? So I thought I > would run a full scan but couldn?t get into mcafee. What do you think > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
