KBerg wrote:
If I fix your computer you pay one of the highest price a person can pay. Not in money. But, if you bring me a computer to fix, expect that I will look in your media folder - and yes I will find where you hid the 'special' one because anyone who has to ask someone else to fix their computer isn't smart enough to hide things very well. Because you may be one of those idiots who keeps clicking on "Want to see nekid grls?! Click here" popups or clicking "hawt girl video totally real no viruses honest.avi.exe" torrent files, in which case I will have to scrub out a whole lot of malware and virus filth from your machine. Which I'm probably doing anyway, but I'm checking for that stuff so I can tell you exactly what protection you should be using and make really nasty comments if you call me 2 months from now with the same problem. I'm not a cyber-STD clinic, I got fed up with dealing with the same problem every few months because someone couldn't be bothered to even learn how to get their rocks off safely on the Internet.
Me knowing that, even if I'm a very discrete person and won't tell anyone... that is a price that a lot of people are not willing to pay. No one wants to look the person who fixed their computer in the eye and get told the reason their computer was all messed up was the weird fetish websites they kept going to. Even worse getting told that yes, I managed to save their special video folder, oh except for the following files... It may be 'free' tech support, but a lot of people are not willing to risk how much it may cost in embarrassment. I get asked to fix a lot less computers now, mostly just the occasional HD failure the professional places can't extract data from since I have higher success rate. And only by women these days.
I read, in another thread on WP, in fact, that porn sites actually have fewer viruses than most others, despite the common misconceptions. Yes, stupid people will download stupid things from torrent sites and such, and those are the same people who fall for those stupid "LOOK SOMEONE POSTED A PICTURE OF YOU: freemacbook.info/pic.exe" messages on Facebook and MSN, but let's face it, they're the types of idiots who'll get infected no matter what they go on, whether it's a torrent site, porn site, gambling site, or pretty much
any site - including legit ones - which has ads on it (for example, Spotify was recently hit by one of those dodgy fake anti-virus scams through a third party ad).
So, I wouldn't be too quick to judge people just because they aren't computer literate.
19 Apr 2011, 8:49 am
