- Joined
- May 22, 2008
- Messages
- 16,112
- Reaction score
- 763
Ta-ta-ta-tat-ta-da we today entered the 21st century. My son bought a router and we were up until 1AM last night trying to get it to work. This morning I called a computer geek place (20 minutes just in travel time - EACH WAY) and said come and do it to it. We NEVER would have gotten that thing to work. The geek ended up having to call Verizon to be walked through a complication that unless you spoke the language (and I am not referring to any nationality other than GEEK SPEAK) you would be SOL. I also had him go over the system looking for crap that had invaded and fine tune it. I wrote him a check for almost $500 and he was surprised I was not grumbling about it - I had no problem with it becaue I am now functioning with WiFi that works.
One thing he told us was that if you get a message that says something like - we detected a virus on your system, click here to fix - do NOT click ON THE CLOSE BUTTON because THAT is usually the trigger. He said to do a control/alt/delete to bring up your task menu and do an end task on it. That deletes it without pulling the trigger mechanism.
One thing he told us was that if you get a message that says something like - we detected a virus on your system, click here to fix - do NOT click ON THE CLOSE BUTTON because THAT is usually the trigger. He said to do a control/alt/delete to bring up your task menu and do an end task on it. That deletes it without pulling the trigger mechanism.