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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
what. the. fuck.
*kisses Linux* 
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Yep, pretty much sums up my thoughts
We have all kinds of horror stories here at the tech support at my University. *That* one definitely takes the cake. Once we started installing managed antivirus programs that update their definitions from our server every two hours, we had a lot less viruses popping up.
The good thing about our job though is that we have the power to just say "Its fucked, we are going to nuke it." Most of the clients data is on a seperate partition which makes it easy for us to just wipe the computer because they generally dont lose anything. I seriously think that one in 20 machines that come through gets nuked because the end user has so fucked it up that it would take hours to repair. Thats a lot of machines.
I really am starting to think that there should be some sort of test to own a computer, just like you have to take a test to get a driver's license. It could very easiyl sort some of this crap out. People see computers as appliances, and treat them as such, not realizing that it is much more than that.