{"id":2092,"date":"2011-04-28T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2011-04-28T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:10:57","slug":"so-yesterday-turned-out-to-be-fairly-busy-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"So, yesterday turned out to be fairly busy for me"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guy who does some rep work for us visited the office. As he came in he spotted me and said “Ah, just the man.” (this generally makes me die a little inside ‘cos it’s usually the precursor to some inane computer problem, but I like the bloke).<\/p>\n

“What’s up then?” I enquired.<\/p>\n

“My daughter’s laptop has a virus – I’ve got it in the car – can you take a look at it for me?”<\/p>\n

I agreed and the laptop was duly presented to me – a pink Dell no less \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

So I booted it up and OMG…it’s been some time since I’ve seen a computer THAT riddled with malware\/viruses. I checked the installed programs list for anti-virus…sure enough ‘Norton’ was installed.<\/p>\n

NOTE TO EVERYONE<\/strong><\/span>: Norton is a piece of shit code that pretends to be an anti virus program. It is in fact, bloatware and completely useless – it’s the first program I ever cracked<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

First job: stop the malware running so I could see some of the screen in front of the pop ups telling me I had 23,000,000 viruses etc., THEN uninstall Norton, reboot install NOD32<\/a> and set that scanning…<\/p>\n

While that was scanning, I located (I’m REALLY <\/em>not keen on Vista) the temp folders and internet file folders, created a script to wipe them on logoff (including the index.dat files), checked the registry for rogue startup files – ditto the system32 folder and went for lunch \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Coming back, the scan had found 1 or 2 (ha!) things and corrected everything – I rebooted, checked everything and it was perfect! another great snee job…<\/p>\n

Then this morning I got a call: “Paul, every time we try to open a program it pops up with a window saying ‘which program would you like to use for this?'”<\/p>\n

I talked him through how to get to the folder options – file types, and add ‘.exe’ as the file type ‘application’ and job done again.<\/p>\n

My karma points must be through the roof \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A guy who does some rep work for us visited the office. As he came in he spotted me and said “Ah, just the man.” (this generally makes me die a little inside ‘cos it’s usually the precursor to some inane computer problem, but I like the bloke). “What’s up then?” I enquired. “My daughter’s laptop has a virus – I’ve got it in the car – can you take a look at it for me?” I agreed and the laptop was duly presented to me – a pink Dell no less \ud83d\ude10 So I booted it up and OMG…it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[136,789,792,791,790],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-computers","tag-dell","tag-nod32-rocks","tag-norton-is-shit","tag-vista-is-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}