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My father in law has a couple of times. The first time -- he said "oh really? I guess I'll format the drive then" and they hung up.* The second time -- we'd
by whatusername 15y ago
My father in law has a couple of times.
The first time -- he said "oh really? I guess I'll format the drive then" and they hung up.*
The second time -- we'd talked about the scam and he just yelled at them a bit then hung up.
* Gamers who download cracked software become really good at re-installing windows. :P
- drdaeman 15y ago> really good at re-installing windows Sounds like hardcore old-skool gamers. I believe modern ones had already learned about filesystem snapshots ("shadow copy" or whatever they're called there).
- whatusername 15y agoOh yes. This is on what is probably 7 year old hardware by now. But he's quite happy in exactly the way he has always done it. (Although I have now convinced him that step 1 of a windows XP re-build is to install firefox)