Got a surprise from Linksys 8)

This 84-year old man nextdoor to me asked me to connect him to the internet, since he owned a laptop. I looked his laptop over and found that he just needed a PCMCIA card and picked one up from a local Wal-mart sometime last week.

Well...I just got around to installing it for him this evening and found something interesting when I opened the box. The card, documents, and everything was there...but the CD was strange. It did not bare the Linksys logo and instead was labeled with a marker, "GeekSquad 4.8."

"The heck?" I thought to myself as I slipped the CD into the computer. I have no idea how a Geeksquad CD got into the box of a linksys network card from walmart. o_O
Pictures of the program when loaded on my machine:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/KGhaleon/squad1.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/KGhaleon/Squad2.jpg

Yeah, real big WTF moment. It seems to be a CD used by Geeksquad techs. I ended up getting the actual driver off the internet...but I'm still wondering whether I should try and return it for the real CD. <_<

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jbaello

LOL

Damn geeksquad did it again!!! give me a copy of that disk, I can use it to fix my PC...

Tyrant1919

My buddy works for Geeksquad, he has a bunch of cool utilities I haven't got to play with yet.

Darthn3ss

can you seed a torrent of that?

paintb4707

That's priceless.

JDMurray

Suuuuure would like to get my hands on that utility to blog about it...

jbaello

Good idea JD blog them, so we can unmask em... it might be the best thing the public needs to be aware of.

JDMurray

KGhaleon, what's the version of that MRI app? I see v4.8.0 on eDonkey. The ISO is 665MB.

Oh--never mind. I just saw the 4.8.0.0 in the splash screen.

KGhaleon

If I didn't know any better, I'd guess you guys want me to seed it, eh?

Yeah, that's the version number. I don't know if that's the latest or not. They have some programs like Ewido, which seem rather dated so I dunno. I promptly copied the disc to my drive like the license agreement told me too.

sprkymrk

Looks to me like someone got it as a Christmas present. Bought from Best Buy but returned to Walmart. This time of year they don't always require a reciept.

Very possibly bought by a GeekSquad employee using his discount (20%?) and returned to Walmart for full price...

JDMurray

It seems like the Geek Squad MRI is just a bootable tools disk with a bunch of standard diagnostics/repair tools and maybe a couple of custom ones. There is a Geek Squad manual in PDF format floating around the P2P networks that mentions the MRI CD. It's pure A+ cert stuff, but helpful to anyone needing to fix a PC. It contains no secret Masonic codes that I can tell.

KGhaleon

Strangely, the tools just expired on me. It won't let me open the MRI and tells me to go get the latest version.

I don't know if putting my clock back will change anything, but that's weird. I assume it looks at your clock since CDs are read-only and nothing really should have changed with the files. It could have changed something in the registry of the system as well.

KGhaleon

I got another weird surprise. I got a CD marked as "confidential" in the mail today. Apparently it is from a contracting agency I worked for a while back. I did a few projects for them. I think they sent the disk to me by mistake...as it contains a lot of documentation and data on an upcoming project.

mamono

You seem to be a magnet for weird things...

JDMurray

mamono wrote:

You seem to be a magnet for weird things...

A magnet for people who don't frequently update their contractors mailing lists.