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Old 14-03-2008, 09:03 AM
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One day the heater was left on
Well with all that going on the computer (idling) would be only a small part but I agree, turn it off..

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Oh, the task manager is processes running with no applications.
well that's not so bad, EXCEPT one of those pages is probably all trojans!

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We wore one computer out as it took 30 minutes to get to the login because it took so long for all the viruses to start up. We had someone remove them once and they got over a thousand of all varieties. Within a month most of them were back...
If she just does browsing/chatting, maybe run in a virtual pc session each time and just delete the virtual session each time I'm joking of course... kind of.

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So now I do all my internet stuff on my computer and never bother to scan hers....not my problem any more.
There's very little you can do when the user of the pc does not care.. some things require the users' help unfortunately
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