June 6, 2007 at 10:20 am
· Filed under Misc, Computers
I think I have had this email about 10 times now. Yes, it is spam and no you dont get £100 or whatever it is.
Think about it. Would Persimmon or Marks & Spencer really pay £100 for 8 email addresses? I just got this too:
A hoax e-mail is being circulated offering a promotion of free Marks and Spencer vouchers for forwarding the e-mail to colleagues and friends.
Neither Marks and Spencer or Persimmon Homes have made any such promotional offer.
Please delete the hoax e-mail and notify the people to whom you have sent it that it is a hoax.
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November 17, 2006 at 12:18 pm
· Filed under Misc, Computers
So how do you convince a now 15 year old that downloading “free” music and other choice programs to save a few quid is not a good idea? Maybe getting infected with spyware might stop them. The type of spyware that requires a full reformat and losing all of said downloaded material. As there are just too many infections to pick material out from. Sadly no. They go straight back to whence they came to get back the music and files you just scrubbed because they ‘need it’. Less than 12 hours later you’re back to square one. But it’s ok, they were ‘careful’ this time, so it can’t have been their fault. *bang head against wall*
Four complete reformats and a new hard drive later, teenager finally realises that maybe he doesn’t need to download music quite as much as he thought and turns over a new leaf. Maybe me refusing to ever fix the PC again had something to do with it? :P
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