On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:30:18 -0700, John Corliss <
r9j...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>It was at one point, and I was the one who introduced it to this group.
Not quite sure what I used back then. Whatever it was, it grew
distasteful over time, something of a nag to leave behind and never
look behind to its tracks. Possibly a British published AV program
and placed for Windows 95. I also built many custom computers. A
sore point, that sort of thing, when people interrupted to became
insistent they needed the assurance of "protection."
One I recall, a "tower of power" I sold to a Brazilian. I'd especially
scrimped on the build, putting parts just so to make it near the
unbelievable deal for the money. First thing he did was, not to walk,
but run over to Best Buy and blow a hundred bucks on Symantec
Antivirus Suite. Second thing was to call me up for a repair.
Symantec had embedded itself into the MBR, requiring the hard drive be
taken down and a rebuild of the OS from the ground up.
Dunno if it even registered when I suggested he get his money back, if
possible;- there's certainly better ways to spend it, I'd have
thought.
Things like that just seemed gradually to get worse, though, and
eventually I stopped altogether doing people the favor of dazzling
them with build prices, costing magnitudes more in a retail brandname
counterpart. They simply hadn't a reference, little comprehension,
worse, even a care to bother with what a computer is appreciably
capable. Later, looking back more carefully, it had always been
there;- it was me: the to-my-face "computer genius" with a deal-a-day
they couldn't ignore, quick on his turn-around builds to break even
for getting my fix with all the latest and greatest in technological
hardware advancements.
Hell, back then, if I needed anything else, I'd come to Google for a
commitment it once made, one which wasn't yet a blatant intrusion, to
honor and keep a spirit of the USENET alive. When actual search
returns across ACF were pointed, categorical, and well-covered ground
for researching all the best possible freeware alternatives.