night9hawk

Fatman said:

Did Malwarebytes (a product I use for Windows and more recently Mac) change their definition of what adware is - which makes results look inflated?

Malwarebytes will report individual files associated with various malware as being "malware". So if it detects the MacKeeper app on the computer, it's launch daemon, and it's preference file Malwarebytes counts that as 3 pieces of malware.

I actually had this happen to me back in 2008 during one of my trips to the UK. I was working on site and when I got up to leave I pulled the plug out from the wall. The front plate with the plug ends on it came loose from the rest of the adaptor. I made an appointment for the next day at the Regent St. Genius Bar. The appointment took less than a minute. I handed the adaptor and brick over to the Genius who said "Oh!" and handed me a brand new power brick which contained the proper plug end.

Hmmm...maybe it's time to revisit the SE form factor?

Wow! I had no idea it was that easy to make a proposal for annual meetings. I own roughly $30,000 worth of Apple stock so I'll have to mull over what I would propose at next years meeting. Anybody want to seconds a proposal for Apple to get back into the router business?

As someone who is in the Apple repair business, including several years of warranty repair work, I think this lawsuit is nonsense. I’ve dealt with many cases where in the course of doing things like RAM or HD upgrades or replacements I would find the insides of the computer caked in dust. Computer still ran fine. An extreme example is the time I found the inside of an iMac caked with white powder. I installed an SSD into the computer after clearing out the powder. I asked the customer afterwards what was going on with her computer and she told me she often got ready for her day by powdering herself in front of the computer. Another case was the woman who called me to set up her computer. She was a hoarder who lived in a filthy house and she smoked. The computer had been purchased the previous year and was sitting out of the box on a table but still wrapped in the original clear plastic. There was a distinct yellow stain on the exposed metal parts of the computer but thankfully not on the screen that had been protected by the plastic. I set the computer up for her and the computer ran for a day and a half before it died. Wouldn’t start to save her life and the warranty had expired since it had been a year since she bought it. I took it to the Apple Store, explained the unusual situation of a year old computer which had hardly been used but had died. My story was buttressed by the yellow stain which was clearly visible only on the exposed parts of the computer. They verified my story by checking the amount of time the hardware had been used, which the computer keeps in somewhere in PRAM. Ended up charging her $50 labor for the logic board replacement because the also found the interior caked with cigarette residue. I usually find Apple to be reasonably easy and fair to work with in these situations. They’re often willing to help and bend the rules to be helpful as long as you aren’t a jerk and can clearly explain the situation to them.