As some people might know around here, a core part of my job is repairing computers.
About 6 years ago when when i started this game on a professional level, I was mostly doing hardware upgrade and repairs. Back then, I might have one or two virus removals in year, and spyware was not even heard of. And when i finished up a job, I would give a 3 month labor warranty (along with the 1 year parts) just incase the same problem popped up. Rerely I would need to worry about that 3 month labor warranty.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, most of my jobs now are virus and spyware related. 9 times of 10 it because people have not install antivirus on there computes. And when I have installed antivirus, they do not bother up update it.
And according to McAfee eSecurity News Windows 2004-5
Anyways, as of lately I have been getting people calling me up asking about what sort of garantee or labor warranty that i can give on virus removal and spyware.
And the only thing I can tell them is that when they pick up their computer, there will be no virus on it.
And they normally get annoyied with this as I normally have to tell them that whether or not they get a virus / spyware tomorrow, day after, next week or next month is purely up to them.
And then they start bringing up stuff about labor warranties and other stuff like that.
Like last year, i had some clown that manage to exculate things to the department of fair trading just because of a computer virus the day after I cleaned it. He did not win in the end, but he did waste about 5 hours of my time.
And there was about 5 other people that I can think of in recent history where they called up about a week or 2 weeks later as they got another virus, and then expecting me to come work for free for them.
Anyways, I need some suggestions on how do deal with people so they can feel safe in dealing with me, and yet I do not have to worry about another day in court because of some one else's studity?
About 6 years ago when when i started this game on a professional level, I was mostly doing hardware upgrade and repairs. Back then, I might have one or two virus removals in year, and spyware was not even heard of. And when i finished up a job, I would give a 3 month labor warranty (along with the 1 year parts) just incase the same problem popped up. Rerely I would need to worry about that 3 month labor warranty.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, most of my jobs now are virus and spyware related. 9 times of 10 it because people have not install antivirus on there computes. And when I have installed antivirus, they do not bother up update it.
And according to McAfee eSecurity News Windows 2004-5
Virus Watch
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Survey Says:
67% of PC Users at Risk to Immediate Virus Infection
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How often do you think you update your anti-virus coverage? Daily? Weekly? Maybe never? Not surprisingly, perception is different from practice.
While 71% of general users say they do it daily or let their software apply automatic a-v updates, in actuality only 33% have their PCs updated weekly, reveals a recent survey and
follow-up computer scanning by the National Cyber Security Alliance and America Online.
That left two-thirds who have either no anti-virus protection or have not updated their protection in the past seven days.
Anyways, as of lately I have been getting people calling me up asking about what sort of garantee or labor warranty that i can give on virus removal and spyware.
And the only thing I can tell them is that when they pick up their computer, there will be no virus on it.
And they normally get annoyied with this as I normally have to tell them that whether or not they get a virus / spyware tomorrow, day after, next week or next month is purely up to them.
And then they start bringing up stuff about labor warranties and other stuff like that.
Like last year, i had some clown that manage to exculate things to the department of fair trading just because of a computer virus the day after I cleaned it. He did not win in the end, but he did waste about 5 hours of my time.
And there was about 5 other people that I can think of in recent history where they called up about a week or 2 weeks later as they got another virus, and then expecting me to come work for free for them.
Anyways, I need some suggestions on how do deal with people so they can feel safe in dealing with me, and yet I do not have to worry about another day in court because of some one else's studity?