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I've read about people like this that simply give up their computers because it takes more time and money to right them than it's worth.

That’s beside the point. I don’t really mind helping out Brain’s family. I’m here to talk about computer overkill…again. Last time I was over at Brain’s, I wanted to get online and show him the videos of Danny Way 360°ing the Great Wall of China. She had his computer buried in a mountain of stuff, so we had to try it on her spyware-ridden Dell. This computer…I can’t even describe how messed up it was. It took about 5 solid minutes to boot, and not only was her system tray LOADED with all sorts of strange icons, there were at least 20 unidentifiable processes running in the background. She had Norton anti-virus installed, along with Norton firewall AND the Windows XP firewall. 3 popup blockers were running, and shortcuts to 4 or 5 spyware remover programs littered the desktop, along with an “internet privacy tool” (read: pr0n history eraser).

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