Every time my coworker downloads porn his computer gets infected with spyware and adware, sometimes it crashes and he wants me to help (for free). What can he do to prevent this?

Find him a girlfriend, sounds like he needs one.

Stop downloading porn.
He seems to be getting viruses anyway so he may as well go out and get the real thing.

Sounds like your friend's computer is getting the same kinds of things he could get if he associated with the people he is looking at on the computer! That might be a good sign to him that what he is doing is not only not good for (and can ruin) his computer, and also not really healthy for him if he is obsessed with doing it.

Hope nobody minds me answering my own question. If you're reading this, MK, stop downloading porn!

Enable the content advisor in Tools/Internet Options/Content/Enable......click ok then enter a password that you can remember this will stop him going onto these web sites in the first place.

Thisman (or woman?) has too much time on his hands at work. I would give him more work and deadlines on each project.

He might consider using his home computer and installing some good spyware, and virus protection. To have safe sex one must use a condom these days.


Stronghart

You mean at work he is downloading this stuff? If it's a work computer, then he needs to keep it that way. If he wants to download porn, then he needs to get a home computer for that. Sadly, porn is one of the hardest things for us guys to get away from.

Tell him not to download porn, or if he must do it, do it at home on his own computer. If I was his network manager I would take a very dim view of this sort of behaviour.

Just say no. When the sh*t hits the fan (and trust me, it will eventually) if your boss learns that you were involved in any way, you could lose your job too. Don't let this guy's poor judgment take you down with him.

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He can grow up and do something intelligent with his time instead of playing with his privates!

Tell him to quit wastin' time on porn and get back to work!!!

you should probably tell him to stop downloading stuff like that. you should let him know also that if you guys have any antispyware programs like spyferret, it in it self is a spy ware. any anti virus programs like nortan is a spy ware, but also let him know that if he keeps downloading such content that he is going to end up with more and more spyware and viruses with each download he makes.

maybe he can get fired for downloading porn at work, and that will solve the problem...