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Oh crap I’d forgotten about that. First experience with this was my mother calling out of the blue. “There’s this purple monkey on the screen and he’s telling me things”. For a few minutes I thought she’d OD’ed her meds.

Then there was removing that, some other more persistent malware from my father-in-law’s windows ME computer one fine Christmas Day.

Joy to family tech support.



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