Oh Oh PC World Caught again..

[reidnet]

Wonder how they will worm their way out of this one,

 

The Courier: Taking you to the heart of Tayside and Fife

 

Bet Gary Glitter would like this one..lol

 

Ian

[blacksheep1979]

they often use second hand parts - which is a bit naughty, but I bet the kid got caught looking at porn by his father and claimed he didn't do it.

[spikeachu]

Refurbished parts are often used, this is stated in their service agreements and is no real secret.

 

However, I must admit to being slightly sceptical about this story. Transferring a hard drive from one laptop to another without running the restore program on it would more than likely cause driver issues and that's if it would boot up at all without Windows protection errors and stuff.

 

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but i'm sceptical. I'm more inclined to take Blacksheep's version.

[Lula]

I thought that most of the more hard core porn sites required a deibi or credit card to view then, anyway, if he had been surfing for porn, it is quite easy to track the sites visited.

[sheepdemon]

Nobody pays for porn on the internet, if he got it from a friend as is likely the case it will be untraceable

[Bigmac versus]

Sticky wicket that one, no pun intended.

[Foxarino]

This is BS, I know for a fact.

 

During my employment at the Tech Guys I did a stint in the laptop workshop, all the hard drives are new.

 

There's no point in having an old drive hanging around and bunging it into the new machine (because it will of come out of an old machine which is knakard), there's no point in using refurbed drives either because it's actually cheaper and more practical to use new ones.

 

All old drives get destroyed anyway in there.

 

Now the drive was replaced and obviously there would be an image that would of been put on the drive.

 

When the repair work is completed it is then passed to another engineer to check the system over and then signs their name to the effect the machine is in working order, with the bare os and pre-installed software.

 

Nobody has time to look at porn there as each engineer has around 10-15 laptops a day! Not only that the internet connections are so locked down it's unbelievable, trust me anything to do with porn rings alarm bells at DSG hq, which is in Hemel as the internet is a feed via VPN from there. (basically means the internet comes from another computer sharing it the other side of the country and is monitored and all the dodgy stuff is blocked big style).

 

What also stands out to me is they say they turned the machine on and some spyware killer kicked in and said it found a virus.

 

Erm - No DSG system comes pre-installed with a spyware killer and secondly spyware removal tools don't detect viruses.

 

Now based on this information that somebody obviously at their home has installed a spyware killer means they access the internet.

 

Sorry but 2 and 2 together here does make 4.

 

That kid was bashing the bishop to a bit of beastality, it's clear to me lol

 

For something to 'pop-up' there has to be something triggered for it to pop-up!

 

I.e: Being on a website associated with this kinda thing then it pops up some dodgy stuff.

 

Also if the program detected something, it would of cleared it, so the system would not be popping this stuff up, if there was an intention to do so by the alledged spyware.

 

Amazing how these stories evolve around kids using machines then it's the parents who run off to the press when it wasn't them initially using the machines.

 

Anyway, that's my essay over for today folks lol

[blacksheep1979]

just playing devils advocate (as I believe it was the kid looking at porn), but even without internet connection there are ways of looking at porn - external HD's, thumb drives and other removable media.

[Foxarino]

You're not wrong fella.

 

To be honest I didn't think of that, I'll take it back about them not having time to look at porn lol

 

What strikes me as odd tho is, the repair centre is basically like an open plan office so anybody from anypoint can see your screen so sitting there, rigging up an external drive, wacking it on and checking out the delights of sharon does scooby is pretty slim there.

 

I'm not saying it's 100% impossible but with the quality control procedure it's very very unlikely.

 

If it was in a store and not the laptop workshop then I'll say it would be a bit more possible/easier as the repair teams are a bit small and sometimes engineers will be left alone to complete repairs but I'll not go into that as I could be classed as suggesting they do lol.

[Foxarino]

Also forgot to mention it's forbidden to bring in your own computer bits, especially hdd's as you could be ripping customer data, this is checked by security everyday.

 

Anyway... I'm not sticking up for them it just smells a bit fishy...

 

The story, not the dog... or the girl.... then again it could smell a bit, woudn't know I've not been in that position lol

[Hunger]

The original article says nothing about "tech guys" being envolved. Could this hard drive have been installed in store?? Could it have been removed from a similar machine with another but different fault? could it still contain all its original data?.

Funny things can happen in PC World Stores, the fairies do come out at night you know.

How come all PC World security staff look like they have spent all their dinner money in Burger king opposite, and how come most of them seem to give the impression that they do nothing all day but surf the nett looking for left handed webb sites?

 

Hunger ( making lite of the fact)

[spikeachu]

The stores are tight, they'd skin a fart for a penny.

 

Using their own parts to fix a laptop when The Tech Guys will happily do it for free? Do you do stand up by any chance?

[blacksheep1979]

windows installed on one machine won't run on another if you change more than a few parts. Therefore they would have had to do a fresh install of windows. The chances of the porn coming from the store are slim at best and the chances of a teenage boy looking at porn on the internet... - well I know which story I'd be betting my money on.

[Hunger]

But ist funny though Blacky you must agree.

 

Hunger

[PKea]

Its all about the boy looking at the porn.

MY money is on the dad downloading the stuff, and the kid found it.

Obviously Dad can't own up to it, so blames PC World.

[PKea]

It could be PC Worlds new ad Campaign, aimed at Adults.

 

New Laptops from £399 , Preloaded with Microsoft Vista, Office 2007, Porn

 

lol

[mortis]

they often use second hand parts - which is a bit naughty, but I bet the kid got caught looking at porn by his father and claimed he didn't do it.

 

100% or another family member was

 

amazing what consumers will try

[ForestChav]

Blatantly the kid, and who can blame a kid that age for being curious? I certainly would not.

 

But then, equally the kid is embarrassed getting caught and comes up with a scapegoat...

 

I can't see how this could have happened another way.

[robbond55]

What do you mean comes up with a scapegoat? Have I missed something but I don't remember seeing anything to do with a goat?

Perhaps another of our four-legged friends though?

Makes me glad that I'm a vegetarian......

[Zamzara]

They say the porn appeared via popups.

 

It's highly possible that the explanation is no more than someone clicked on a '100% free spyware removal' type ad and installed some malware.

[rampantdragon]

First time posting.

 

Peasy World again and my Philips X56 laptop. I have read some other posts concirning this model but I never managed to break the screen or wear off paint, but I want to share the bad treatment I have had and wondered if anyone else has had problems.

 

I have had my laptop since last November 2006 and originally it came with the XP with free upgrade. Eventually, after paying £16.50 for this free upgrade I upgraded the laptop, and this is when the problems began, although not totally down to the Vista. The unit started over heating and cutting out until 28th June when it packed up completely. I returned it to the Wrexham Peasy World branch on the 30th June from where it was originally purchased. They explained it would have to gop back to The Tech (Wrech) Guys and I returned to the store one week later to be told it was at the repair centre. On 11th July I contacted the TG's and they told me the unit had not been delivered to them and it was still in the store. It was collected the next day but I sent a complaint detailing the problems to Peasy Customer Support who e-mailed me by return apologising for the branches poor performance. I was contacted last week and told the unit was ready for collection 27th July (oddly enough the 28th day after qwhich they have to give a refund). The store was noisdy but the unit appeard to boot but when I got home I noticed some 'beep codes' which actually give a unknown error. The unit however will not turn off and only goes off on the power switch, which is not good news.

 

I contacted Peasy World this morning and have been told it will have to be returned again and it will take up to 28 days again.

 

I am totally shocked by the treatment and attitude I have received. Many other retailers would just give you your money back, but not this outfit who if they do authorise a refund, it is in vouchers only. I wonder what Philips think about this or do the condone this treatment as surely, if there is a manufacturing defect Philips should exchange the faulty product directly. I for one will not purchase from PC World again but meanwhile, what about my laptop.

 

Anyone else with similar problems ?

 

Regards,

 

David