I had a 10 or 12 year old computer that had been hooked up on some unsecured motel wifi at every TVA power plant location. It had problems, It wouldn't let me upgrade the virus programs or the spyware programs, at times it seemed to have a mind of its own. I decided to buy a new one. I got a $350 dollar laptop. I did not activate the McAvee virus program. I down loaded one off line. I paid 30 or 40 bucks for it. The computer got to acting odd. It was slow and a lot of times when I left clicked on something, it would hiss at me before doing what I asked. I ran a virus scan, it scanned 60,000 files. There was no reason there should be that many files on it. I took it to a computer shop and told them that something was wrong with it. They checked it, charged 80 bucks and it wasn't fixed. The virus program I bought was uninstalled and their program was on it. They would activate it as soon as I signed a contract for $15 per month. This was a 350 dollar computer and I was not gonna pay $180 per year for a virus program. I brought it home, activated the Macavee program, paid extra to get spyware and malware included, ran a scan and the number of files is down to 40,000. What is in my computer.
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