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Source: H Security - Posted by Alex
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It's one of those rare Saturday afternoons when the sun is actually shining. I'm just wondering how much meat to buy for the barbecue when my mobile rings. It's Hans – he nervously confesses to me that he thinks he's caught himself a virus.
As I innocently enquire how that might have happened, my normally supremely confident mechanical engineering student friend breaks into a stutter, "Well, the thing is, I, well yesterday I bought a new computer, with Microsoft Office pre-installed. But it was only a 30 day test version, and I don't have the money for the full version. So I thought…" I finish his sentence for him, "I thought I'd just download a hacked version and save myself a bit of cash. And now strange things have started happening. Right?"
"Yeah, exactly, how did you know that?" asks Hans. "Because there's one born every minute", I think to myself. "Because you're not the first person to call me up with this kind of problem", I tell him.
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