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What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?

Posted by timothy on from the use-a-nice-strong-antivirus dept.

akutz writes "I've had the flu since Tuesday afternoon. My wife picked me up from work with a temperature of 103.6 and it finally broke at 98.7 around 3am this morning. Yay. The problem is that I used my laptop during my periods of feverish deliriousness, contaminating my shiny 15" MacBook Pro with the icky influenza virus. I am asking my fellow Slashdotters if they have ever sought out a good way of disinfecting their lucky laptops after an illness. Do you use soap? A light acid bath? Just get the family dog to lick it until it looks clean?"

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  1. Re:Use rubbing alcohol by maxume · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does your computer smack you upside the head when you call it a "lappy"?

    I mean, are you trying to save on syllables over laptop or something?

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  2. Re:Your body already knows that strain... by jez9999 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm no biologist but, casting my mind back to riveting documentaries on the BBC...

    Your body comes in contact with a new strain of a virus that it has no defense against. The virus moves in. The virus multiplies. Your body figures out how to fight it. Much of your feeling like crap is the process of your body fighting it.

    There's even a nifty little diagram about it on Wikipedia.

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