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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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 Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: my computer died |
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I just bang away on my computer & ashes fall in the keyboard & cat fur fouls up the fans & other stuff inside I'm sure. I've been cruising the net for a while without active virus protection because my norton expired & avast frustrated me.
My unit started to wheeze & occasionally required a good physical thump to the tower to get it operational again (gives new meaning to booting up!) but it finally siezed up & died altogether yesterday.
So I lugged it over to the neighborhood fix-it shop & asked them to make it go. They took a look at it & said they had to wipe it clean & start over, did I have any backups?
Nope. I'm stupid that way but also a big fan of tabula rasa.
I picked it up a couple hours later & plugged it in & they've got me set up with english windows xp again & its purring like a kitten. $20.
Thats pretty cheap. I'll probably drive it into the ground & visit them a year again from now. |
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visitor q
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Location: The epitome of altruism - Oh Obese Newfoundler, I Am Going To Throttle Your Neck, Kaffir
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Why did Avast frustrate you? I find it to be pretty good for a free program, especially considering how it manages to snuff out trojan horses that other free AVPs don't.
Oh, ask your students which anti-virus program they use when you get the chance. Trust me, the answers will be shocking. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| I was happy with avast until they asked me to register which I did at which point I seemed to lose current ongoing protection. My refurbished machine has an active Korean anti-virus program on it now. Likely good enough for my purposes. |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| visitor q wrote: |
| Oh, ask your students which anti-virus program they use when you get the chance. Trust me, the answers will be shocking. |
Don't they use nothing? Or, sometimes, Ahn's? What answer did you get? Just curious. Almost all computers at the school I work at don't work because viruses have crippled them, except for the two that I managed to fix. |
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visitor q
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Location: The epitome of altruism - Oh Obese Newfoundler, I Am Going To Throttle Your Neck, Kaffir
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| denverdeath wrote: |
| visitor q wrote: |
| Oh, ask your students which anti-virus program they use when you get the chance. Trust me, the answers will be shocking. |
Don't they use nothing? Or, sometimes, Ahn's? What answer did you get? Just curious. Almost all computers at the school I work at don't work because viruses have crippled them, except for the two that I managed to fix. |
That's it! Most don't use anything. Pretty bizarre really, considering how virus-friendly Korea is. |
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