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The Weirdo’s are back
For a while things have been quiet on the “Weirdo frontâ€â€¦.
But now it’s starting again
This morning an old lady came into the shop and asked if we bought used computers.
And of course stupid me asked why she wants to sell her brand new Dell laptop
So she tells me that it does “strange thingsâ€, windows popping up, and weird stuff being written on the screen. Strange noises etc etc..
A brief image of a demon possessed Laptop from Hell that writes obscene stuff and pukes ectoplasm from its floppy drive flashes through my mind before I a bit more seriously starts to Think of IE, ad ware, pron popups, viruses etc etc and hoe I’m going to explain that her laptop is not possessed but rather infected when she comes with the next gem.
“It’s my darn neighbors across the street, they have those spy radios and they send stuff to my computer by electric beamsâ€
Hm, perhaps her laptop does have a Wifi card and perhaps it does try to connect to the neighbors Wlan, which could explain some (in her eyes) weird stuff..
But that her neighbors are conspiring to highjack her computer through spy radios??
NO WAY!
I tell her about adware, viri, malware, antivirus programs, firewalls and other precautions and after some discussion I’m starting to believe that I’ve convinced her that cyberdemons from dell haven’t possessed her laptop, and its then she delivers the next bombshell:
“Someone is also using a skeleton key to get inside my apartment and he is messing with my computerâ€
And its then it hits me:
The Weirdo’s are back in force and this year they don’t even have the courtesy to only show up after 1700 on Fridays!
But now it’s starting again
This morning an old lady came into the shop and asked if we bought used computers.
And of course stupid me asked why she wants to sell her brand new Dell laptop
So she tells me that it does “strange thingsâ€, windows popping up, and weird stuff being written on the screen. Strange noises etc etc..
A brief image of a demon possessed Laptop from Hell that writes obscene stuff and pukes ectoplasm from its floppy drive flashes through my mind before I a bit more seriously starts to Think of IE, ad ware, pron popups, viruses etc etc and hoe I’m going to explain that her laptop is not possessed but rather infected when she comes with the next gem.
“It’s my darn neighbors across the street, they have those spy radios and they send stuff to my computer by electric beamsâ€
Hm, perhaps her laptop does have a Wifi card and perhaps it does try to connect to the neighbors Wlan, which could explain some (in her eyes) weird stuff..
But that her neighbors are conspiring to highjack her computer through spy radios??
NO WAY!
I tell her about adware, viri, malware, antivirus programs, firewalls and other precautions and after some discussion I’m starting to believe that I’ve convinced her that cyberdemons from dell haven’t possessed her laptop, and its then she delivers the next bombshell:
“Someone is also using a skeleton key to get inside my apartment and he is messing with my computerâ€
And its then it hits me:
The Weirdo’s are back in force and this year they don’t even have the courtesy to only show up after 1700 on Fridays!
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