This...Is...Spyware!!!

[furrbear]

From (The Customer Is) Not Always Right and a hug to codecattx:

This…Is…Spyware!

Electronics Store | Texas, USA

Customer: “Hi, my son says that I have spartans on my laptop and I should bring it to you guys.”

Me: “…Ma’am? Spartans?”

Customer: “Yes, I called my son at school and told him that screens keep popping up all the time, and he said that I have spartans.”

Me: “Oh! You mean trojans! That’s a possibility; let me run this analyzer on your laptop real quick and we’ll see what’s going on.”

Customer: “Young man, my son is in college and he says it has spartans. You just stand here in a little uniform and make minimum wage. I think my son knows what he is talking about.”

Me: “You’re right ma’am. I was hoping to run a diagnostic and find out that it wasn’t spartans, but just by looking at the login screen, I can tell that you probably have about 300 of the little guys running around.”

Customer: “300?! Is that bad?”

Me: “It’s horrible. They cram themselves into a bottleneck and kill wave after wave of data, until there is a wall of dead programs blocking any more traffic through your computer.”

Customer: “Oh, that just figures. I’m going to go buy a new computer.”

Me: “Ok, ma’am, I think that would be best.”

My Bet: Best Buy, west of The Parks Mall, Arlington. Son goes to TT or A&M.

Comments

[gearjock.livejournal.com]

Mother knows best.....

[furrytxcub.livejournal.com]

I bet $500 that the son goes to Tarleton and it was a Fort Worth BB.

[furrytxcub.livejournal.com]

OMG.....

Or it's Longview/Tyler and the son goes to SFA. Lord please help those poor kids at SFA.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I'd go for Sam Houston before Stephan F.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

LOL I-30 & Ridgmar?

[furrytxcub.livejournal.com]

Natch

[popebuck1.livejournal.com]

You're overlooking the most obvious possibility.

Obviously he goes to Michigan State!

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

How ironic that in one of the netcasts I was listening to on my drive home, the subject of computer-naive people who get their machines infested beyond belief with malware - and then just go out and buy a new one - came up.

For a brief moment I thought these people could be a source of decent hardware that could be rescued with a DBAN and new OS load - but then I remembered the kind of crap machines these people buy. ;)