I once got asked to fix a womans computer, her daughters mainly used it, she was really clueless. Typical toolbars, emoticons, dancing buddies everywhere (this was early 2000's).
Thing was riddled with crapware, spyware... the lot. I cleaned it up as best I could, the eldest daughter (12) couldn't use messenger(?) so I opened it up to test it out.
She had about 200 friends, most with names made up of smiley faces and hearts and every type of girlie emoticon imaginable. I asked her which of her friends I should message to try it out, she pointed to one at the top.
I said something like 'Hiya, just testing messenger, can you see this message?' and got a reply 'Yeah babe, 'sup?'... out of politeness I replied 'Just getting my computer fixed' and 'he' replied...... 'A/S/L?'
I replied '30/M/Wondering why you have my 12yr old daughter as a contact?'
'He' couldn't disconnect fast enough. Now... I don't know if anything nefarious was occurring, maybe she added a dude who had no clue who she was, but the whole thing left me feeling uneasy and I had a chat with her mother to make sure she was keeping an eye out
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I once got asked to fix a womans computer, her daughters mainly used it, she was really clueless. Typical toolbars, emoticons, dancing buddies everywhere (this was early 2000's).
Thing was riddled with crapware, spyware... the lot. I cleaned it up as best I could, the eldest daughter (12) couldn't use messenger(?) so I opened it up to test it out.
She had about 200 friends, most with names made up of smiley faces and hearts and every type of girlie emoticon imaginable. I asked her which of her friends I should message to try it out, she pointed to one at the top.
I said something like 'Hiya, just testing messenger, can you see this message?' and got a reply 'Yeah babe, 'sup?'... out of politeness I replied 'Just getting my computer fixed' and 'he' replied...... 'A/S/L?'
I replied '30/M/Wondering why you have my 12yr old daughter as a contact?'
'He' couldn't disconnect fast enough. Now... I don't know if anything nefarious was occurring, maybe she added a dude who had no clue who she was, but the whole thing left me feeling uneasy and I had a chat with her mother to make sure she was keeping an eye out
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