Find The Fan File
My cousin said that her laptop was overheating and making a buzzing sound. Her friend piped up and commented that it was most definitely a virus and that she should take it to Geek Squad to have it removed. I said, “No, it’s not a virus. It’s probably your fan. Your fan is messed up. It’s probably just dusty, try cleaning that out.”
This girl got righteously angry and told me that no, it was a virus, and she knows because she had the same issue with her laptop a few months ago and Geek Squad fixed it. This went back and forth for a bit with me insisting that a virus doesn’t affect the fan function, it was literally a hardware issue, and she was talking to me like she couldn’t believe how stupid I was to not realize that a virus was making my cousin’s laptop fan bog down.
I finally explained to her how viruses work. Her reply was so idiotic, it’s unforgettable. She stomped her foot like a child and exploded, “It’s still a virus! The virus just deleted the file that runs the fan!” I stare at her in disbelief. “The file that runs the fan? What is that, fan.exe?” and she said, “Finally, you get it!” She was so convinced that this was the case that my cousin believed her and said she would just take the laptop in to have it checked and cleaned.
Whatever, if you want to pay out to have some smug jerk at Geek Squad “fix” your laptop, that ain’t my business.
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