[HoqCBYMl]

...a friend of mine HEAVILY into blogging anti nwo/gubbermint articles had some light malware on her laptop. SO, she brought it back to best-buy for a quick fix......nothing out of the ordinary, UNTIL she recieved her laptop bacK, COMPLETE WITH A NEW HARD DRIVE! she screamed bloody murder for her old one which apparently was ...uhh...' ..."LOST" all efforts to locate it were in vain. Thats right.... her personal info was stolen under the guise of "repair" and presumably/ probably turned over to the nsa.
Back up your info and NEVER let your hard drive out of your direct control.
just sayin...

[spiveker]

Stupid is , is what stupid does!

Using the internet and does not know how, or to ask how, to remove the slight malware? Taking her machine in, so complete strangers have access to her files?

Ignorant can be cured, stupidity can not!

Hope your friend is in the ignorant and not stupid side.

[JohnMaltczevitch]

Moral of the story?

Nobody's hands but your own should EVER be able to have unsupervised contact with anything of value to you.....Learn to do whatever needs to be done yourself, or leave it be, Or live with your ignorance.

[KevinDonae]

I am lucky in that my lap top repair lady likes me and even if there are 20 comps on the shelf for repair she always takes care of me right away..........went to see her last month and for some reason her boobs looked bigger and rounded and I said "hey honey are you gaining weight or what? your boobs looks bigger" and she says "I had a boob job"......I said "really?" and then reached over to feel them hahahahhahaahah she looked around to make sure that no one was looking and smiled at me

[Krruqgwt]

We all know this goes on. What the real story here is, the blatant bald faced open in plain sight turning over of private info to the gov.......the story here is not one of stupidity (she did so cause it was under warranty), but one of ; HOW did "they " know who she was....and WHO demanded the hard drive? The repair room had a disposal bin dating back MONTHS...all of it was accounted for but hers...

[Nifoziyfar]

joe, they ADMITTED they "replaced" the drive. The real show happened after the client demamnded the old one back. A search began that involved uppity ups from corporate headquarters......because of the legal implications. Someone WANTED that particular hard drive.
there was a bin as i said chock FULL of old parts hard drives etc....only hers was missing.

[sbrscnds]

She wouldn't live in Florida maybe?

Edit: Not referring to our "K".

[leijggeds]

no.......

[Aqgkvwzm]

geek squad does all of the repair work at best buy. line 2 of the geek squad customer agreement states that they have the right to replace any part that they deem defective WITHOUT CONTACTING THE CUSTOMER. they won't do any repair work unless the customer signs the agreement. so, what your friend did was not read the agreement, signed it, and is now upset because geek squad did what they said they were going to do and what she agreed they could do. next time she should read shit before she signs it.

[imnaone]

geek squad does all of the repair work at best buy. line 2 of the geek squad customer agreement states that they have the right to replace any part that they deem defective WITHOUT CONTACTING THE CUSTOMER. they won't do any repair work unless the customer signs the agreement. so, what your friend did was not read the agreement, signed it, and is now upset because geek squad did what they said they were going to do and what she agreed they could do. next time she should read shit before she signs it.

i know....but WHERE in the hell IS the part unless they evaporate....your in the buisness chad, do they normally throw out peoples old hard drives when replacing them

[FoetAgerhot46]

i never threw them away for at least 6 months or so. sometimes people would come back and want them. that's bullshit they they don't have it. what they probably did with it is ship it off to a recycling place, that's what the one here does with them (and that's what i do with them).

[BuyNetHosting]

i never threw them away for at least 6 months or so. sometimes people would come back and want them. that's bullshit they they don't have it. what they probably did with it is ship it off to a recycling place, that's what the one here does with them (and that's what i do with them).

there were a BUNCH od hd's and parts in the bin, ONLY hers was "missing" that to me rules out recycling..

[weluvjessicaalba]

a good way to keep track of if people are f-ing with your hard drive is to go in to the bios (f2 at startup on most systems). look on the drives menu or the main screen, the hard drive will be listed along with a unique serial number. write it down. you can always go back in to the bios and see if the number has "changed."

[Roorseprate]

could also be an employee stole it. if it's a popular model, somebody may have lifted it out of the bin. the best buy here doesn't even keep track of what's in the recycle bin (they gave me some cd drives for gateway nx860s once). i admit though, that is odd.

[JetePlentuara]

could also be an employee stole it. if it's a popular model, somebody may have lifted it out of the bin. the best buy here doesn't even keep track of what's in the recycle bin (they gave me some cd drives for gateway nx860s once). i admit though, that is odd.

If you ever have a stack of hard drives on your table and they are all the same, unless you mark or record the serial no. there is no dam way to visually tell one from the other, you have to hook them up and boot to see what is what about them.

[italertb]

im playing the gov angle only because i KNOW what she writes....and the absurdity of "losing' it ...as chad states, in post # 13

[PersonalLoansBank]

take them to the range. if you hit the spindle dead center they will blow up like a bomb. it's awesome.

[SinncmxM]

What he said is that it probably got recycled. Personally, I take 'em apart for the magnets and then chunk 'em.

I love those magnets!! The only sad part is they are so dam brittle, they break if you look at them sideways!

[Nutpoode]

They don't have the SN on a decal on the outside of the HD?

How would they verify it for warranty if it wouldn't spin up? You could return any old piece of the same model and get warranty on it.

[Freeptube]

Had to laugh at a TV program a couple weeks ago. An online dating service was raided by cops. They had a big red "emergency stop" type button mounted on the wall and one guy took a stab at pressing it but was stopped by the cops. Supposedly it went to some degaussing coils mounted above the hard drives and pressing the button would destroy all data beyond retrieval.

When the cops were done and had gotten the information they wanted the button got "accidentally" pressed by them when they left to disrupt the dating service business (a savy outfit would backup their data multiple times during the day in some other location to keep this from being a problem).

Actually having a degaussing setup above a hard drive is not really that bad of an idea. I don't know of too many computers actually have room for one of these coils though.