When the conversation turned to cool businesses that one could work from home the topic turned to starting a home computer repair business.
As my wife and I have had many such chats over the years this one started out as just a routine brainstorming conversation. Then I Googled the idea and things changed.
I found out that up to 95% of all Windows computers currently online are plagued with data-mining, offline ad pop-ups, something called parasites, trojans, dialers, browser hijackers and lots of stuff even meaner sounding than viruses.
According to Earthlink, the spyware and virus problems are getting worse instead of better. Problems with locked up computers are more common and over 225 million computers are infected.
I decided to start a casual survey of my friends. I gave myself a very low key goal of 3 to 5 months to complete the project. I didn’t want to appear too pushy or obvious. All I asked was one question and the rest of my presentation took a natural course from that point.
My conversation would begin casually and end with….have you noticed your computer is acting funny?
Most often the response would be,...