timmymacs
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Righto, I'm sure this is a common occurance for some of you experienced types, but Im proud to say this is my first one, so I'm going to share it with you all!
I had a callout today to a lady probably in her late 50's who had said her husband requested her to call us because there were "porn Popups" coming up while he was browsing the internet. I said, not a problem sounds as though you may have picked up some malware along the line, I will scan and clean it up for you... Simple. Not so simple.
She then came over and said "before you clean anything off can you please check this date and time and tell me what sites were being looked at at the time. I know nothing about how to use a computer, so please show me what was going on at this time" and handed me a sheet of paper. I browsed to the date in the Internet history and saw an entry for youporn. She asked if that was a porn site and I said yes. Then she asked me to show it to her. I told her I wasnt particularly comfortable doing so, but she said she needed to see it and asked me to explain what sort of site it was.
I explained that it was a free video site and probably one of the bigger ones going around. She was curious as to the content and asked me whether it was just normal porn or anything illegal! I explained to her that it was a fairly reputable porn site (what!) and nothing illegal could be found there (how do you know?!!!)
She then asked me to clean it all off and install a browsing filter. I d/l and installed k9 because it was free and I had heard it was decent. There was no malware or spyware infections on her machine
So basically Im thinking I was there because her husband had been caught! and had blamed it on a virus/popups. But I was also employed by her as a private detective.
I feel slightly violated, and a little annoyed with myself for maybe breaking "the guy code" and dropping the poor bloke in it!
thoughts?
I had a callout today to a lady probably in her late 50's who had said her husband requested her to call us because there were "porn Popups" coming up while he was browsing the internet. I said, not a problem sounds as though you may have picked up some malware along the line, I will scan and clean it up for you... Simple. Not so simple.
She then came over and said "before you clean anything off can you please check this date and time and tell me what sites were being looked at at the time. I know nothing about how to use a computer, so please show me what was going on at this time" and handed me a sheet of paper. I browsed to the date in the Internet history and saw an entry for youporn. She asked if that was a porn site and I said yes. Then she asked me to show it to her. I told her I wasnt particularly comfortable doing so, but she said she needed to see it and asked me to explain what sort of site it was.
I explained that it was a free video site and probably one of the bigger ones going around. She was curious as to the content and asked me whether it was just normal porn or anything illegal! I explained to her that it was a fairly reputable porn site (what!) and nothing illegal could be found there (how do you know?!!!)
She then asked me to clean it all off and install a browsing filter. I d/l and installed k9 because it was free and I had heard it was decent. There was no malware or spyware infections on her machine
So basically Im thinking I was there because her husband had been caught! and had blamed it on a virus/popups. But I was also employed by her as a private detective.
I feel slightly violated, and a little annoyed with myself for maybe breaking "the guy code" and dropping the poor bloke in it!
thoughts?
