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So my sister told me today that her computer is infected with ants. No I don't mean a computer virus, I mean actual living, breathing ants have infested her computer and are living in it. She's moved all of the information from her laptop onto an external drive. Is there ...


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Old 15th Jun 2009, 15:56
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So my sister told me today that her computer is infected with ants. No I don't mean a computer virus, I mean actual living, breathing ants have infested her computer and are living in it. She's moved all of the information from her laptop onto an external drive. Is there any way to get rid of these things? I've heard that this has been happening recently to people. They're called crazy raspberry ants or something like that.
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Real ants? Living in a laptop. That's a new one lol. Errm... get a compressed air line and give it a good blow out.
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I've heard of certain species of ants being attracted to stuff like certain glues, your ants may want to chow down on some solder or something crazy like that.
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I thought it was a yarn like the raspberry blower of old london town at first then read this,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3941545.ece
scary
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I dont know either to laugh at that or take it serious, sry if it is a serious subject but i just cant picture little ants running around eating electrical equipment

Maybe we can train them up to prevent faults in our computers


All seriousness, that would be a headache if they did start eating through stuff
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Real ants? Living in a laptop. That's a new one lol. Errm... get a compressed air line and give it a good blow out.

LOL!
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Are you actually serious??!

Or just pulling our legs..?

either way!!
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No I'm serious. Why would I make something like that up?
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make sure its running 24-7 and almost overheating and make them leave lol
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Take it into PC World .... they will kill anything

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