Comments | agilebrit: Because LJ knows all...

agilebrit

Because LJ knows all...

Jan 17, 2009 15:20

My husband sold his HP on eBay ( Read more... )

Comments 13

jimhines January 17 2009, 22:30:58 UTC

Is it possible for a virus to hide somewhere and survive a reformat, sneak back through the system during the reinstall, remain invisible while you finished loading WinXP, and then leap out to destroy the hard drive?

I don't know enough to say it's not possible. I suspect it's far more likely that -- if a virus has indeed fried the computer -- the buyer immediately ran out to the porn sites without protection, caught an LTD (laptop transmitted disease), and fragged his (her?) own drive.

Hoping the motherboard isn't affected? Exactly what kind of supervirus does this person think they have? In 7+ years of I.T. work, I never came across a single virus that caused hardware damage. And I cleaned a lot of crap off of our workstations.

agilebrit January 17 2009, 22:35:17 UTC

That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure before the Hubby fired off an email telling him he's full of ****. Thanks. :)

modernelegance January 17 2009, 22:41:31 UTC

In response to LTD: LOL! That is HILARIOUS!

pensive1 January 17 2009, 22:31:58 UTC

A format WOULD wipe the viruses out.

As long as the comp was not hooked into the Net when XP was reinstalled, a virus couldn't have gotten back on there until the end-user got the comp

agilebrit January 17 2009, 22:36:40 UTC

That's what we figured. What the hell is it with computer buyers on eBay? When I sold my PictureBook, I got a flake too. :/

neo_prodigy January 17 2009, 23:29:26 UTC

Yeah I pretty much echo the sentiments of the others.

agilebrit January 17 2009, 23:33:53 UTC

That's what I thought. I'm vacillating between attributing malice or stupidity to said buyer right now...

crayonbreakygal January 18 2009, 00:21:53 UTC

Gah! I've never heard of a virus frying a motherboard. And I think that reformatting a drive is what computer techs do to get rid of viruses, right? Why can't people just be smart and nice instead of flakes? *hugs*

agilebrit January 18 2009, 00:33:08 UTC

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what they do. *sigh* It's gotten so that doing anything on eBay is a major pain in the ass.

highlander_ii January 18 2009, 04:53:50 UTC

To quote the man in the icon: "Everybody lies."

To add to that - cheaters lie more.

I don't think a typical virus would survive a reformat (considering that's how I got rid of a couple on my desktop PC before), so, I'm thinking, this buyer-person is just a 'douchebag' (since I've been mainlining Las Vegas recently and James Caan kinda rox *g*).

agilebrit January 18 2009, 05:13:30 UTC

Well, we'll see what he says when the Hubby writes him back. :/