Comments on: Doomfish, meet Fist of Death

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:01:40 +0000

I will give you an instance for why I once removed firefox. I upgraded my grandparents 90′s mac with a 2000 PC for free. They use it only for internet and are on a limited budget so everything on it is free. I personally use Opera browser but I gave them Explorer because I did not want to spend a week teaching them to use it. I also installed spybot teatimer along with Sygate firewall to run in the background. Mind you that they are running 256 meg ram on a 6gig hdd with a P3 processor. (I also Macgyvered a 20gig hdd into the specially and uniquely built gateway case with a drill and dremel tool) All on Windows XP, the comp runs fine but is maxed out to it’s capacity. Anyway, it was running perfectly until one of their friends decided to install an old version of norton, firefox, google desktop, screensavers, and countless other programs all to startup and run in the background. Their friend also uninstalled Adaware, spybot, and sygate?!?!?! I found this out after my grandma called telling me her computer is unusable. I spent an hour trying to get the thing to boot up in safe-mode. After deleting all of the crap and reinstalling the deleted programs, I made their account Limited and set up an admin account so that I don’t have to fix it every couple of months.
So that I don’t get flamed, I think that Firefox is a much better and safer program than explorer, I do however prefer Opera over Firefox. I just can not imagin trying to teach my grandparents how to use either FF or Opera.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:47:54 +0000

Simply stunning. The worst thing is, had they not known you, they would have called him back to help fix it and given him even more money.

Anyway, thought I’d make my first ever comment on here.

By: K2323

K2323 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:32:02 +0000

It’s things like this that make me want to punch people. That’s terrible.

Please keep your comments civil and lose the profanity. Cheers. —Seth

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:38:22 +0000

That disgusted me. I can’t believe what that guy did. If I saw that happen, I’d die.

Or I’d get very upset.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:01:55 +0000

Sounds similiar to my experience with my Aunt’s computer. I had installed firefox and recommended they get rid of aim and use another messenger that has aim like trillian. The next time I return, 70 something viruses, they went back to Internet Explorer and they still had AIM. It wasn’t hard to figure out what caused all those fun viruses. That was a fun 4th of July.

But what that guy did is unbelievable. Did they call Microsoft to personally come out and “fix” that computer?

By: Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:39:46 +0000

A world of ICK!

Report him…send a letter…or set some raccoons/squirrels on that guy or something…

Even my harpy-housemates last year were smart enough to choose a decent password for our wireless.

What an anti-seth :-O

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:51:55 +0000

I felt a part of me die on the inside when reading this plus my faith in humans went down even more….

By: Master

Master — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:45:07 +0000

Your a great honest person Seth! Good job! Hope your kindness and honesty may be rewarded someday!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:02:42 +0000

O.o

By: Matthew K.

Matthew K. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:03:15 +0000

I am stunned that he made all those horrific changes to that family’s computers. This person should not be allowed to touch, let alone repair, any more computers. Who removes Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG Anti-Virus, and Lavasoft Ad-Aware from a computer? Thank goodness for honest, kind, intelligent people like you, Seth. At least you know what you are doing.