frederick
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- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
1 Client, 3 computers, all dead today thanks to a little product called "Fix Me Stick". Client says he purchased it on Newegg for $60, cause the IT guy at his work said it's way cheaper and easier than paying someone like me to do it. His computers, all 3, have been plagued by malware for months, with popups, and slow performance, applications not working, etc., etc. He'd been putting off telling me about these problems because he was afraid of the cost. So he decided to listen to the IT guy at work and do it himself.
He followed the directions on the Fix Me Stick...shove it in the computer, give it a reboot, BAM! Computer fixed. Well, it did more than remove "viruses".
His personal desktop flagged his User Profile folder, and quarantined the whole thing. He was having problems logging in with that computer. Well no duh. Well it also could only boot in to safe mode only now. He said before it wasn't a problem, but now the screen "looks all big". The Fix Me Stick had ruined a lot of the normal boot processes and services, to include the video drivers, and so this thing needed the good ole repair from my Windows 7 Recovery disks. His profile was lost. While it was quarantined by the Fix Me Stick, when it was restored, he still couldn't log on. Had to create a new user account for him to log on. Shame.
His daughters laptop was lost. Plain and simple. When you boot up, no OS found. When you throw the OS disk in, no OS found. Tested the HDD JUST TO MAKE SURE!!! The HDD was running perfectly. Removed his daughters files, reformatted, reinstalled, and re-transferred everything over. Windows 8.
His other daughters laptop was having boot issues as well. Normal mode usually met you with a Blue Screen just as you try to log in. Safe Mode would let you log in, but you'd only get a black screen with the corners telling you that your in safe mode. No icons, start menu, nothing. If you were real lucky, you'd try not to start explorer manually through the Task Manager because Alt+CTRL+DEL = BSOD...yeah, fun stuff. Required a repair via OS Disk. Once that was fixed, she still had all kinds of malware, and no photo's she'd been saving from her phone that she deleted from her phone. All her music, gone. All her documents, gone. She told me she has a paper due in the morning, her 20 page paper for her literature class at ASU. YAY ME!!!!!! Windows 7.
All in all, still cleaning up these computers. They are gummed up with malware, but the F$#! Me Stick removed more non-malware than it did malware. My personal opinion....DON'T USE IT!!! This is my first time encountering this thing, and already forever turned away.
He followed the directions on the Fix Me Stick...shove it in the computer, give it a reboot, BAM! Computer fixed. Well, it did more than remove "viruses".
His personal desktop flagged his User Profile folder, and quarantined the whole thing. He was having problems logging in with that computer. Well no duh. Well it also could only boot in to safe mode only now. He said before it wasn't a problem, but now the screen "looks all big". The Fix Me Stick had ruined a lot of the normal boot processes and services, to include the video drivers, and so this thing needed the good ole repair from my Windows 7 Recovery disks. His profile was lost. While it was quarantined by the Fix Me Stick, when it was restored, he still couldn't log on. Had to create a new user account for him to log on. Shame.
His daughters laptop was lost. Plain and simple. When you boot up, no OS found. When you throw the OS disk in, no OS found. Tested the HDD JUST TO MAKE SURE!!! The HDD was running perfectly. Removed his daughters files, reformatted, reinstalled, and re-transferred everything over. Windows 8.
His other daughters laptop was having boot issues as well. Normal mode usually met you with a Blue Screen just as you try to log in. Safe Mode would let you log in, but you'd only get a black screen with the corners telling you that your in safe mode. No icons, start menu, nothing. If you were real lucky, you'd try not to start explorer manually through the Task Manager because Alt+CTRL+DEL = BSOD...yeah, fun stuff. Required a repair via OS Disk. Once that was fixed, she still had all kinds of malware, and no photo's she'd been saving from her phone that she deleted from her phone. All her music, gone. All her documents, gone. She told me she has a paper due in the morning, her 20 page paper for her literature class at ASU. YAY ME!!!!!! Windows 7.
All in all, still cleaning up these computers. They are gummed up with malware, but the F$#! Me Stick removed more non-malware than it did malware. My personal opinion....DON'T USE IT!!! This is my first time encountering this thing, and already forever turned away.
