Poll: Did your relatives ask you to fix their computer over the Holidays? (e-mail, work)

[DCguy03]

The same thing happens every year--like clockwork. Every time that I travel to visit my extended family for the Holidays, it goes like this:

Parents, Grandparents, Aunts + Uncles:
"It's so good to see you! Our computer is having these problems and we were wondering if you could take a look at..."

This year, my Grandparents' PC was full 'o spyware. I later found out they clicked on a "you've won a free ipod" e-mail.

So is it just me, or does this happen to other people too?

[skel1977]

my neighbor is so annoying. hes this wierd single old guy with greyhound dog statues all over the place. He actually tells me i was looking at porn and my computer wont work now can you take a look? Must be like the 5th time.

Dood, stop downloading porn!

Oh and the funniest thing was when i did a virus scan, he has like over 100 viruses

[DCguy03]

Originally Posted by skel1977

Oh and the funniest thing was when i did a virus scan, he has like over 100 viruses

Haha, my answer for that would be:

Since you have 100 viruses, they will likely just battle eachother and should have no effect on you.

[scarmig]

Naw, I got all my support clan set up with auto-updating, auto-scanning protection, so they were all okay.