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91 Viruses & TeamViewer
By John F | June 27, 2008
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91 viruses! My nephew’s computer recently had 91 viruses on it. It took me over 2 hours to clean the viruses and spyware off. He didn’t have an up to date anti-virus program and he intermittently used an anti-spyware program.
In his defence he is only 14, and as much as he enjoys his Myspace page building, making beats [whatever that is] and generally being a normal 14 year old. Keeping his computer secure and free from the nasties on the Internet wasn’t high on his agenda. It is now.
As I live around 2 hours away from sisters, on my last visit I spent the two hours fixing his really slow computer become a bit faster. He was still on Service pack 1 for XP. So I downloaded SP3 and sent it on CD to him via the mail. He uploads it and due to his computer being a bit old, shuts down, and then doesn’t work.
So he re-installs XP service pack 1 and then I run Teamviewer to remote into his computer to re-install a few programs so he doesn’t get in the same mess as before. It saved me a two hour journey to fix his computer.
Teamviewer is a brilliant remote support program that is free for home use, is very small and if you are having trouble with your computer and you know somebody who could possibly help, no matter where they are in the world, is a good program to be aware of.
Topics: Computer Security Usefulness |