This.
A lot of people believe they have to format to keep their PC fast, but in reality it’s just a shortcut for properly cleaning and maintaining a PC.
when you go to safe mode, first thing you should run is a program called RKILL. It kills off any processes in the background. Without that, you can run all the passes you want and it will just keep reinstalling after you clean with one tool. If date and time are changing its definitely a rootkit or malware.
way ahead of you. rkill was the first thing i did. 0 stopped processes 
also TDSSKiller was clean.
i’m telling you this shit is so crazy. i might have literally encountered Computer AIDs. i’m not going to give away too much info, but homie really loves his celeb sextapes.
and Frostwire.
and doesn’t know the difference between a video file and an executable when clicking on said executable.
EDIT: rkill was the first thing on the first day. i ran TDSSKiller today and there were no objects. i ran HijackThis this morning and there were 3 entries that i “fixed” but still no joy yet. i’ll get it eventually
When I used to get the comp scabies I spent a lot of time manually digging through registry editor to disable the persistent ones that seemed to somehow keep coming back.
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When these sort of things happen to my computer, I just dump all my files on an external HDD and just do a factory system restore. It doesn’t take too long.
My grandmother lived in Park Heights so and I am very familiar with the area. My old dentist was around there as well.
Yeah, this is why I don’t even bother. I just don’t have the patience to deal with hours worth of work when all can be said and done in about 30 minutes. I’m sure if you are getting paid for it than yeah, but at the end of the day I just like to wipe everything clean.
I simply tell people that you will lose EVERYTHING on your computer once I do a clean install, and make sure they backup anything of importance before I proceed.
Not really funny, but I’m posting this as more of a method to vent.
Had a work order last week to replace a hard drive for the customer. Not a big deal. 15 minute job replacing a part (the recovery discs arrive later and the customer installs it themselves. It’s very easy), and I’m paid $40. This has been the majority of the work I’ve been doing for the past three weeks. This should have been a routine ticket.
I went to the UPS depot to pick up the hard drive, then I head to the customer’s apartment. The customer isn’t home. I call dispatch, and they try to call her. No answer. This is not an issue, as it was my last ticket for the day, so I waited outside in my car, playing a game on my Kindle that was recently given to me. I do this for about thirty minutes, when I’m called by dispatch saying I should just head home and close the ticket, and that I’ll be paid anyway (Yay!).
Fast forward to yesterday, where I’m told via a new work order that the same customer will be home all day tomorrow (hint: this is a key point), and that UPS is sending the hard drive directly to her apartment this time (so no need for the 30-minute round trip through traffic to get it). The customer, who was difficult to get a hold of, was apparently pissed because I “never showed up.” I was amused by this, and as proof that I did show up I described the decorations on her window.
This morning I was getting prepared to service the ticket, and I tracked the package to find out that it was rescheduled tomorrow because the customer didn’t answer the door, despite being insistent that she’d “be there all day.” So, I called dispatch, who called her, and I was put on hold for ten minutes. The dispatcher got back on the line and apologized, and told me that the customer is pretty pissed about UPS not delivering the package, and we’ll have to reschedule for tomorrow (if she’s even there, as she’s 2/2 on not being there). Now, the problem with this is I’m supposed to be working on installing several self checkout units at a Walmart tomorrow, so I can’t service the ticket if that’s the case.
Of course, the part that amuses me the most out of all this… is that I still have the hard drive from the original ticket, and I can take care of this right now but I have to send it back.
Oh, well. At least I still got paid for the first ticket.
As an aside, I’m feeling less sympathetic towards people getting impatient about technicians showing up sometime during a 3-hour window. I understand that people’s time is valuable to them, and when I say I’ll be there from 11A-1P, I’m there as close to 11A as I can possibly be. The reason that window is there, though, is because sometimes I have 3-4 orders in one day (and many of them involving up to an hour of driving time, making some tickets take two hours by themselves just from travel). Some tickets also get complicated. I’ve seen orders that were supposed to take an hour that took ten minutes, and some that were supposed to take thirty minutes that took four hours. Sometimes one ticket cuts into the window for another ticket, and this happens more often that I’d care for it to.
So the other day I had a work order where I had to assist in the installation of several self-checkout units at a Walmart store.
It was actually a really neat assignment, and I learned a lot about the units… however I also learned that they don’t clean under the scales, and that shit gets NASTY. I found bits of produce, several grimy looking coins that I wasn’t about to touch, and the oddest of all… was three pieces of dried spaghetti. I guess a package tore?
Today was my last work order in Mississippi before I move to Austin, Texas next week.<br><br>It did not disappoint.<br><br>All I had to do was a data migration. Simple enough, takes about two hours (it’s all automated). When I got on site and checked in, the point of contact wasn’t there. I was informed he’d be there in an hour and was told to do what I could while waiting.<br><br>Well, I needed his login, so I couldn’t do anything until he did. Fortunately I had the forethought to bring my Kindle, so I read a book. He shows up with his old laptop, informs me he’s sick and has to go to the doctor, and gives me the details he needs. I finish in an hour, and he’s still not back. Protocol says I can’t leave until he’s signed my paperwork, so I wait. Three hours pass, he shows up, signs my paperwork, and I leave. I talk to dispatch about the situation, and since it was no fault of mine that I couldn’t work, I get paid for the whole time I was there.<br><br>Short version, I just got paid $22/hr to read a book.<br>
I need to learn how to fix computers. I get paid $30 to clean tables for 4 hours 
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It’s not all you think it is. One of the problems with this thread and sharing my stories is that I always seem to accidentally mislead people on how much I make. Yes, I may make anywhere from $20-45/hr, but I get three hours a week, if I’m lucky. I get in trouble with most
jobs if I take longer than an hour. This job was supposed to have taken
no more than three, and it was the only work order I could accept today.
Some tickets are also an hour away, which with the gas rates
these days, means I’m spending three hours and $30 of my day making $45
that I still have to pay taxes on, so that’s about $4 an hour after
taxes. <br><br>Today was just one of those rare days where, despite all the bullshit I have to go through, I can tell the universe is still on my side. Even so, you make more than I do, I assure you. I made $400 in the entire month of January. This is just what I have to do to keep my skills sharp until I find a better job.<br>
<div><div class=“QuoteAuthor”><br></div></div><div><br></div>I didn’t know you only get 3 hours a week. I work at a Red Robin’s as a busser (Cleaning tables, dishes, misc shit) and make server minimum wage which is like $3.45 an hour. But I also get tipout, where I get 1% of all the server’s sales. So if someone only sells $100 worth of food, they only give me a dollar. $200 = $2 and onwards. I do that process with each server individually. But if there is a second busser there we split based upon our hours. Like thursday I worked for 3 hours and made $14 in tipout. <div><br></div><div>$3.45 x 3= $10.35 + $14 = $24.35 It takes me around $15 in gas to get to work and back home so I actually only profited $9.35</div><div><br></div><div>So yeah before you broke it down, your job sounded pretty good to me. I was also assuming that whoever you work for would cover gas since they require you to drive that far just to work for them. Then again it isn’t a perfect world :|</div><blockquote class=“Quote”>
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<div class=“QuoteText”>So yeah before you broke it down, your job sounded pretty good to me. I was also assuming that whoever you work for would cover gas since they require you to drive that far just to work for them. Then again it isn’t a perfect world :|<blockquote class=“Quote”>
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That’s one of the reasons they pay “well.” It’s supposed to be able to cover my gas and whatnot. Sometimes I’m able to squeeze more out of them (maybe $5 or $10 more in total), but not always. I also get around two calls a day about work orders, but can only end up taking two or three a week because the others will be two hours away, or an hour away and I’m out of gas and haven’t been paid yet. >.><br></div>
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yeah, i got a “real job” working for The Man this month. i still do the computer thing, though. even though this job is better on paper, i still prefer the computer thing. <br>
So I finally started getting work orders in Austin. Today I got called to replace a UPS at a MAC store. No problem. I get there and it’s one of those weird-ass outdoor shopping malls the size of a small city, and parking is a nightmare. I finally park and walk two blocks with my big-ass toolkit and arrive at the address.
Then I realize that this isn’t a place where you buy Apple products – It’s a makeup store.
I walk in, and every girl in the place (the employees and the customers) is an undiscovered super-models. The manager, an extremely gorgeous Argentinean woman, takes me into the very cramped back room and explains to me what is going on. I professed my embarrassment and told her that I thought this was the Apple store, and had I realized it was a trendy makeup shop I would have worn my glittery eye patch. I got one of those surprised “Holy shit, he’s actually funny” laughs and she pinched my arm and said I fit in just fine. In an awkward sort of way, I was actually popular with all of the girls who worked there.
Anywho, got to work, got it done, and got out. My only problem was that I was barred in my contract from exchanging any personal information, so I couldn’t get any of their phone numbers… or that’s just what I keep telling myself, anyway. >.>
You can’t get called into a Mac store to fix a computer problem
“Macs don’t break and don’t get any viruses! (thats why they cost more)”
PS:
I don’t know a sarcastic enough smiley in this new batch, what is this bee even about…
or the pirate! :ar!
Come on duckie, who says you can’t make an excuse to go back there after work? Say you think you lost something there and get those digits while you’re there.
Right. A grizzled guy with an eye patch is going to go into a makeup store. I’m already surprised I didn’t make the product melt.
Wear your glitter eye patch, it will work out.
and welcome to texas where the girls are bangin as hell. I miss Dallas