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Whenever I buy anything used I always think it's contaminated with something of some sort. Or the seller put something on it. I'm even like this with PC hardware. Like if it won't effect it, I usually wash the item with soap (mainly with cases).

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Why a problem? Better to be safe than sorry...

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There is nothing wrong with cleaning things.  It is if it becomes obsessive to you and you are cleaning things too much then that is a problem.

Too many ****ing games!  Back log 4 life! :S

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Thats actually very smart thinking.  

 

Allot of people think I'm paranoid, by choosing passwords over 8 characters, Securing my network and firewall balls to the walls and using Sandboxing all the time.  Yet actually, its very smart thing to do.  

 

People who say you have a problem simply do not understand the whole picture or the risks involved hygienically with buying and using, specifically touching something that has been used by someone else.  

 

They could have pooped on their hand.  Rubbed the poop on thier new graphics card to prevent people stealing it at LAN parties!   Think about that! 

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I don't see any problem with wiping it down with a disinfectant like Lysol, for example.

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Thats actually very smart thinking.  

 

Allot of people think I'm paranoid, by choosing passwords over 8 characters, Securing my network and firewall balls to the walls and using Sandboxing all the time.  Yet actually, its very smart thing to do.  

 

People who say you have a problem simply do not understand the whole picture or the risks involved hygienically with buying and using, specifically touching something that has been used by someone else.  

 

They could have pooped on their hand.  Rubbed the poop on thier new graphics card to prevent people stealing it at LAN parties!   Think about that! 

Even though the last part is a bit over the top, it's true. People don't wash their hands, like what if they were just wacking off?

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Even though the last part is a bit over the top, it's true. People don't wash their hands, like what if they were just wacking off?

Well then, maybe I have more of a problem than you ;)  

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People don't wash their hands, like what if they were just wacking off?

You'll never shake a persons hand again with that mentality. :P

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Whenever I buy anything used I always think it's contaminated with something of some sort. Or the seller put something on it. I'm even like this with PC hardware. Like if it won't effect it, I usually wash the item with soap (mainly with cases).

 

 

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use isopropyl alcohol. 

And everything I had fixed someone's laptop I would to think 

"they watched porn on this"

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If I can clean it, I will.
I don't want other people's germs on the stuff I've bought. I don't know that person, I don't know how clean they are, if they washed their hands after their business in the toilet.. etc..

 

So no, I don't think you have a problem.

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