"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:41:53 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:


If he was using Kazaa, chances are good that he paid even when he didn't
think he was paying. So many people's computers were turned useless by
Kazaa's spyware, and required reformatting/OS reinstall. Lots of geeks
made
money doing that for customers.

Yeah, that's the one. My son was home then, and put it on my
computer, which was the only one in the house. Being a geek, I fixed
it myself with no reinstall. And he got his first computer.

--Vic


I did a clean reformat/reinstall for the parents of a friend of my son's.
The computer was trashed by spyware. A week later, trashed again. Fixed it
again, but this time, I got paid for the work, with $100 worth of tools from
the father's Snap-On truck. You'd think that would've made the parents more
vigilant. Nope. The computer was phuqued again about a month later. Their
solution: Buy a new computer. Duh.