I have a 13 yr old brother in law who is a Fudgetard. There's no polite way to put it. Fudgetard. (no this isnt the bro in law I bring to lans. He's 21). Anywho. His mom..that would by my mom in law, got him a low end dell that her work was getting rid of.

I threw XP on it along with Avast. Mom in law emailed and stated it has a virus on it and that she'd like me to fix it...again. This is the 3rd time in two months I've had to fix this POS. I don't use XP anymore nor is my current set up condusive to hooking up another system for diagnostic and possible re-installation activities. It's a pain in my ass.

What is the best way to lock this sucker down so this dipCrap can't screw it up again? All he does is play WoW on it. Supposedly, he gets these viruses by downloading WoW addons but he's too stupid not to run any .exe files that claim to be addons or whatnot. Thoughts?

I know....

Another thing you could do is use OpenDNS to block porn and other bad sites.  The mom in law will probably like that anyway.  To fix it remotely you can use Crossloop although someone has to be on the other end to allow you access into the machine.

Cut his hands off.


13 yrs old....recurring virus infections....I smell pron....and probably some form of lube.  There's no way he's getting these infections from wow addons alone.   And correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the addons from Blizzard?

Cut his hands off.


13 yrs old....recurring virus infections....I smell pron....and probably some form of lube.  There's no way he's getting these infections from wow addons alone.   And correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the addons from Blizzard?

Not all addons no. Actually I think most of them are user-made. WoW addons are basically just lua scripts. Or at least they were last time I played that damn game. I don't see why they couldn't carry malicious thinga-ma-whatsits.

Quote from: decepticon on March 11, 2010, 02:09:10 PM

Cut his hands off.


13 yrs old....recurring virus infections....I smell pron....and probably some form of lube.  There's no way he's getting these infections from wow addons alone.   And correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the addons from Blizzard?

Not all addons no. Actually I think most of them are user-made. WoW addons are basically just lua scripts. Or at least they were last time I played that damn game. I don't see why they couldn't carry malicious thinga-ma-whatsits.

I see.  Yeah, I guess they could come from user made crap.  My money is still on electronic masturbation material.

ooo. Imma try that steady state when I get the comp tomorrow. Good call.

HA! I was waiting to see how long it would take for one of ya to pin point it. Not long at all.  4 hrs?