Tuesday, 8 March 2011

In Which We Get A Call From The Global Computer Helpdesk

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It's a lovely day here in Ordinaryville when the telephone rings with an unavailble number. I answer expecting another pitch for credit repair etc when the caller announces that he is from The Global Computer Helpdesk and they have identified a virus problem with my computer.

Oh No!

He talks me through a few menu items and we end up at the Windows control panel, Computer Management section. The Indian chap, for it is another partially fluent Indian, confirms that the presence of errors in the error log means my computer is infected with a virus so virulent it can't be detected by any known anti-virus scanner. Errors in the error log? Whatever next?

I'm extremely concerned by this so ask him how to remove them. He transfers me to his supervisor and I can tell they can smell a sale.

The supervisor speaks and asks me to go to my web browser, asks me what is in the address bar and I tell him it's www.chickswithdicks.com

This seems to enrage him and he tells in quite graphic terms how to insert one part of my anatomy into another and then hangs up.

I never quite found out what that virus was...