It's easier to disable all the garbage than remove the garbage?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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I didn't know one could call a random IT helpline and get stuff fixed on Windows.
My experience was, either find a workaround or a paid software that did the thing, or live with the bug.
But my free security suite that found 358+ viruses and says I'm missing 200 DLLs said to call 1-800-NO-VIRUS and their technician will fix it over the internet!
You can't, that's not immediately obvious when the computer is telling you otherwise
Ed: spelling, also this is a pretty obvious joke... I'm not sure why I have to explain this.
So here's the thing.
In my phone, when I type a phone number, it is a number and does not contain alphabetic characters.
So that thing that it is asking you to call, isn't callable. Even if you have a fancy physical keypad that has both letters and numbers on the same keys, they still enter numbers when you try to type letters in the number field.
Every dial pad I've ever seen, including old rotary phones, has numbers and letters on it. This is not new. This has been a thing for over 70 years now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#Letters
Based on this, your phone is the problem, not my phoneword.
Whoosh ?
OK I'll bite, what's the joke?
Wait, I just realised you are the same person that gave the original reply to my comment.
I thought you were playing bokeh in which you ignore the main point of the comment and instead make fun out of another aspect of it and act like you are saying that seriously.
So I replied in kind and dubbed the normal physical keypads of the older dumb and then feature-phones as "fancy" and then acted as if the number actually had to be shown in alphanumeric to match what was written.
Don't tell me you were being serious when you said that the ny free security suite was going to send you to someone that would fix your problems (unless your problem was having too much of money).
Because its a phone number substitution set. You type by the letters on the dial pad but if fills in numbers for the phone number.