DD_Brando Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 I hate doing house-calls! An old Warbirds buddy rings me up and asks if I can go round and help him to get on-line. Off I go to Torquay and, feckin' hell, he's got an account with TalkTalk The only way to start the connection is by using a CD, and the fun starts. At lightning speed I watch a legalised browser-hijack take place, as the connection is diverted straight to www....aol/talktalk.com. Jeepers isn't quite the expression I used, but I don't want to say it, and I should correct what I said about going directly to AOL. In fact I watched horrified as the bottom bar revealed the various sites it was linking to on the way - Ad-click is the only one I can name atm but there were about a dozen. Cursing, I went to Firefox options to replace the opening page but I hadn't allowed for the stupidity of my client. While I went to have a pee he started clicking on links to set up e-mail and stuff. Oh nooooo! To cut a painful story short, it took me an hour and a half to get the machine to a state of safety - free of AOL and a host of spyware that had appeared. My mate phoned me up this morning and apologised for being such a dick-head - I just wished him good luck with TalkTalk. One to avoid lads, unless you feel like wasting a nice evening. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenPark Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 on the other hand, if we do install it, we can get you to come visit then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_O_A_D Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Well without friends like that, it would make it much harder to appreciate a naggin wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Brando Posted May 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Well without friends like that, it would make it much harder to appreciate a naggin wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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