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My mother's friends asked me if I could come install minecraft for her son on the brand new laptop she bought for him (he is 10). She never had a computer so she don't know how to use it. In just to days, they managed to install so much crap on it that I barely had enough time to install malwarebytes before explorer just fell appart and would just refuse to work. I started a full scan and it is incredebly slow maybe because their is so many virus. 

 

In the 10 min I could use explorer I had a lot of random popup ad. The thing is filled with Adware. Now I am afraid I will be their thech guy and will have to go see them everytime something goes wrong :(

 

I breifelly explain that you must not install all the crap you see and the principle of ''custom installation'' and basically ran away xD

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Lol.

A colleague of mine did something similar for his gf's mom. Ftr we work in tech support so now he's basically fucked. xD

 

Seemed related so I thought I'd share. :P

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Sounds like literally everyone who hasn't built their own computer or spent five minutes reading "Computers for dummies."

I mean.. I wasn't that bad before I built my own computer. :(

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I know how you feel..

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I mean.. I wasn't that bad before I built my own computer. :(

At some point, you were.

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At some point, you were.

I dunno.. One of my first discoveries when I used a computer was porn sites... You very quickly learn certain areas of the internet aren't safe for your computer at that point. :P

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I dunno.. One of my first discoveries when I used a computer was porn sites... You very quickly learn certain areas of the internet aren't safe for your computer at that point. :P

Yes. You learn that through it happening to you or knowing more about computers. Which means, at some point, you were.

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Finding the good download button is a skill you learn very quickly if you want to survive in the tech wolrd haha

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Yeah, I had one of these situations. I was asked to "clean up the browsers" of a work computer. Decided Ccleaner was the tool for the job, but as I watched it scan the browsers, certain keywords caught my eye. The internet can be a very scary place :blink:

 

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Just pop in a windows disk and run away!

If it was my computer, a fresh install would have been my choice. But for now I just ran a full malwarebytes scan and hoped for the best :(

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If it was my computer, a fresh install would have been my choice. But for now I just ran a full malwarebytes scan and hoped for the best :(

 

It's two days old. There couldn't have been much of anything important. Especially for a 10 year old.  :P

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Poor your... :(

 

Like some people said, why didn't you do a fresh install O.o If you don't know much about PC's, then you couldn't install a lot of important stuff...

 

 

Lol.

A colleague of mine did something similar for his gf's mom. Ftr we work in tech support so now he's basically fucked. xD

 

Seemed related so I thought I'd share. :P

It'll be hella weird if/when they break up, and even more so if he marries her... :P

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Poor your... :(

 

Like some people said, why didn't you do a fresh install O.o If you don't know much about PC's, then you couldn't install a lot of important stuff...

 

 

It'll be hella weird if/when they break up, and even more so if he marries her... :P

I did not have the installation CD

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Yeah fresh install or maybe a earlier restore point. Or even factory default.

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In the 10 min I could use explorer I had a lot of random popup ad. The thing is filled with Adware. 

 

That is how the Laptop from my schools "IT" guy is like. Tried to install a printer driver, but the HP driver side was filled up with ads. When I went home to check the HP site, there wasn't even one ad. 

 

When I had my first PC I could not load it up with crap ware because we had a dial up modem only on my dads PC. 

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