The typical scenario involves spending Saturday afternoon installing the previous two service packs, 40 updates, removing crapware, chkdsk, defrag, installing security software, scanning PC and removing viruses.

Invariably, you’ll get a whiney phone-call that goes something like this: “What did you do to my PC? It runs slower now.”

I’m done!

http://www.Mindovo.com

If they can’t fiqure it out, and are afraid to ask, they end-up with an expensive paper weight and won’t be visiting CrunchGear or generating any content… other than a loathing for geeks.

I Use Linux

Trust me, it works for me! (And yes, I do use Linux)

At 7 am CHRISTMAS MORNING, with a small child asleep in his bed dreaming of Santa loot (honestly, what boy dreams visions of dancing sugar plums?), I was up the road at a neighbor’s because their A/V identified the US Dept. of Transportation as a threat. Her truck driver husband needed to leave that afternoon with the permit they were trying to download from the site.

I wasn’t able to convince Trend Micro that the DOT really was a safe source, so I created a Gmail account for them, sent the file there, opened it in Gmail, printed, saved and fled.

I was back home by 8:30, and had cinnamon rolls ready when the kid woke up (Thank God – my husband would have divorced me on the spot if I had screwed up Christmas morning because I was off nerding).

The fun part of the story is that they had been messing with the file since before Thanksgiving, but still waited until CHRISTMAS MORNING to ask for help.