someone trying to screw pcworld?

[MadduckUK]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...pc_world_porn/

what do you think? the drive would have been formatted at some stage even if it ever contained anything.

and:"my son was on the laptop the next day and there were porn images with animals and women flashing up"

they were flashing up were they? hmmm

someone wants a new laptop!

[mallett]

hahahahaha, thats not actually possible, unless the game the kid was playing was a harddrive recoverer

i smell a con in the air

[nichomach]

Look, sounds to me like the PC World pulled the disk out of someone else's machine that they'd had in for repair, didn't clean it properly and banged it into the repair customer's machine. It'd be interesting to know whether the Windows install on the machine is actually a Philips OEM... I'd be unsurprised if the machine WERE infested with pop-up-ware.

[MadduckUK]

its either a con or the kid has strange fetishes already and tried the "it just popped up" line

[adamzetec]

Things just don't "pop up", sounds as if the child was upto no good, got caught out and claimed that things "popped up". If this was a true story and there was evidence to back the story up, it would have a far greater media coverage.

[mallett]

...the kid has strange fetishes already and tried the "it just popped up" line

lol

and to install windows on any drive, new or second hand, it first preforms a format, or its only a repair install in which case the drive would still be full of everything that was already on there

and that still doesnt account for the "pictures were popping up" line, unless maybe it was spyware but iv never seen any really graphic pictures come up from the most spyware filled machines

quite a clever con though, getting the media involved and all that

[mosherben]

you can never rule out that the person who put in the hard drive decided to visit a few porn sites and forgot to cover his tracks

[Sinizter]

Both sides are bull****ting ...

PC World for using used parts in repairs - I bet they charge for new parts.

As for images popping up ... Never heard of that, and I wont believe it is caused by PCWorld. And windows reinstall would be fresh (unless they did a refresh install - which would be unlikely as this hard drive came from a different PC).

[Tom Scott]

lol

and to install windows on any drive, new or second hand, it first preforms a format, or its only a repair install in which case the drive would still be full of everything that was already on there

and that still doesnt account for the "pictures were popping up" line, unless maybe it was spyware but iv never seen any really graphic pictures come up from the most spyware filled machines

quite a clever con though, getting the media involved and all that

Don't PCWorld install lots of spyware as standard on most of their "new" machines? I know my lappy had plenty of rubbish on there that was promptly removed.

[MadduckUK]

what, like norton?

[Tom Scott]

what, like norton?

Something along those lines, it was something like such as "Norton internet insecurity 2012xp gold pro ex edition". I can't 100% recall...

Maybe these are the new billboard adverts in Battlefield 2142?

[MadduckUK]

Maybe these are the new billboard adverts in Battlefield 2142?

that sounds like an excuse for a PA comic!



and its animal related!

[nichomach]

OK, a lot of what's being spouted here is plain wrong, or based on unproven assumptions. A format MAY be performed during a windows install, but it is not automatic unless the drive is completely unformatted. The "repair" may not even have involved a complete install anyway - how do you know that the PC World chimps didn't put in a drive that already had a Windows install on it? They MAY have done a fresh install, but even if they had, suppose they just did that on an existing partition to save time? What if they just did a repair install on an install that was infected?

[MadduckUK]

since we dont know the facts, and nothing you have mentioned can be proven to have/have not taken place either assumptions are all we have! we are speculating here and we know we are!

[nichomach]

OK, it's speculation, but a lot of that speculation is being based upon statements that are simply incorrect.

[Mike Fishcake]

So we're speculating on speculation?

I bet that the 11 year old boy is actually an Al-Qaeda terrorist, his "dad" is actually an 8 year old Shetland pony, and the pornographic images were actually photos of Jean and Derek's holiday in Weston-super-mare.