My utter lameness revealed (again)

[bobquasit]

I am geeky enough to write to Dear Abby. I read it regularly, and her response to a writer today was so lame that I sent this:

You missed something, Abby. "PIQUED IN PALO ALTO" almost certainly has one or more infections in her computer, thanks to her porn-reading guest. Adult popups getting sent with her email is a dead giveaway. This is not surprising.

Just getting a new email address will NOT solve the problem. However, she may be able to avoid spending a large amount of money. PIQUED can use a series of free security programs to clean and protect her system.

It's a common error to spend large amounts of money to have a system professionally cleaned, only to end up with the same problem a few weeks or months later. All the resources anyone needs to protect their system are available for free online. I have no connection with any of these companies or products (except as a satisfied user), but if PIQUED installs the following:

Ad-Aware
Anti-Vir
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Spyware Blaster

...and updates them at least once a week (which is easy to do, it only takes a few minutes), she is unlikely to ever have a problem again. And they're all free.

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

The original Dear Abby and her twin sister Ann Landers (yes, they were twins) both don't write their columns anymore; Ann Landers from having died a few years and go and Abby is retired and according to the Wikipedia post has Alzheimer's. Her daughter does Dear Abby now.

I've looked at those columns in the past, but they don't interest me that strongly unless I see an interesting header. I'm perhaps too slow a reader to be able to read that sort of thing and the stuff I want to read in the paper.