Sorry Doctor, but you have been infected!
Last week I was talking to someone I had just met. She's a doctor with a number of specialisations and seems to me that it's quite an achievement for her age – either late twenties or early thirties, I didn't ask!
She sure knew her stuff, and she knew she know her stuff, becuase soon we were discussing all sorts of things under the Sun and above the operation table – scary stuff like ebola viruses and even scarier things like oral hygiene etc!! I was soon reduced to a listener, though I am good at it, I couldn't let someone run all over me like that for ever! When she was about to take a very high-speed fly-by near the cancer research and grid computing, I noticed my chance, my last strand and I shamelessly held onto it for another ten minutes, well, okay, bit longer than that! Oh yes, the miracles of grid computing and how we all can contribute to making the world a better place tomorrow, with better medicines, less doctors to go on about things, that doctors usually go on about, and stuff like that! Brutal, I know, but I am allowed – I am an IT guy!
Anyway, long story short, may be she realised she should throw a bone my way to keep me from going hostile - she pulled this laptop out of her bag that she hadn't been able to use for a very long time! Apparently she is amused by the friendly strangers on her PC, personally guaranteeing a excellent value extension surgery to a penis which she didn’t have and extremely annoyed by the fact that she is extremely popular and considered as a friendly foreigner by everyone in Nigeria and most parts of Africa and South Asia, where people want to pay her a few millions of dollars as 'generous commission' that always seems to belong a dictator or rich general who died either in a plane crash or in a political unrest. She also seems to win lotto every time she opens the computer! Who could ever think one will get tired of all the good fortune!
She is not the only one though – almost every other person that I know who has a PC at home, connected to the Internet etc, seems to have similar stories to tell! Well then guys, I don't mind fixing all your PCs once. Or twice. Okay even third time for a pint. But next time when you see an offer to 'wipe your mortgage clean', do the following before you ask me out for a pint.
Install (and UPDATE and USE) these FREE software:
AVG Antivirus
Its free! Don’t forget to update the virus definitions and scan the whole PC once a week. http://www.grisoft.com
Spybot Search & Destroy
Its free! Don’t forget to update the spyware definitions and scan the whole PC once a week. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Stop using Internet Explorer and use Firefox instead. Its better, relatively safer and its free. If you use Outlook, look into about Thunderbird as an alternative.
After all these, if you get yet another 'Hot Latina babes' popup in your screen (when you are not looking for 'Hot Latina babes' of course), let me know!
