Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 07/11/07 21:14

On 2007-07-11, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
> daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and Destroy
> came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies. The anti-
> virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned up,
> installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I told them
> that IE was off limits.
>
> Three days to fix this. Scarey.

You could have installed GNU/Linux in a couple of hours or less.


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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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