
As I write this, my first post on these forums, I'm sitting two feet away from the 4th machine I've had to fix today, spyware infections took up most of my working hours. I'm a full time PC tech at a small store that generally fixes home computers, and I can tell you right now, when i got into this game, I didn't do it to spend all my time fixing spyware.
I'm getting to the point where if you put me in a room with a person who writes this crap, one of us would be leaving feet first.
And what's worse, none of the "tools" out there are worth a damn anymore, Ewido, Spybot, Ad-Aware? they're glorified cookie removers, that's all. They started out as wonderful tools that would fix pretty much all the problems you'd run into, now not a single problem I see can be fixed by them, I have to sit there, deleteing the same registry entries machine after machine, reinstalling TCP/IP stacks, clearing out hijacks... and WHY?
Because some lazy bugger sitting half the world away can't be bother getting real honest work? That they have to make their money making my life, and the life of millions of people, a living HELL.
I long for the days when I'd have virues come into the store, at least then I could understand the motivation of the people making them, and it was fun to remove them... spyware... god. I've seen more porn working in IT then I ever did as a teen.
Disgusting horrible stuff shoved in my face as I work on little johnies computer, all the while his mother is telling me her sweet little hell spawn couldn't of found that on his own and how horrible a place the internet is... NEWS FLASH LADY, its not a babysitter and teenagers are pervs. I know I was one ten years ago.
How do the rest of you deal with working on this crap 6 days a week?