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Old People and Computers
At first I thought my grandmother was talking about Spybot Search and Destroy
Then I heard about the slowdown on a perfectly good computer
Dear lord. She had installed one of those, "You may have a virus! Install me so I can spy on your habits!" 'virus' scanners. And all the toolbars in IE (I won't even try to pry her away from that)
I may not be the best at computers and likely have a few viruses on mine. But dear lord there's a point where it gets too much >.<
And she's a better user than my mom (although that isn't my mom's fault - she's using a laptop as old as XP itself because my dad refuses to get her a new one. My mom is intimidated by computers so it isn't pretty, and that laptop is so riddled with crap that I'd rather burn it after a priest has cast the demons in it back to cyber hell)
At least my grandmother still has Avast! installed
Then I heard about the slowdown on a perfectly good computer
Dear lord. She had installed one of those, "You may have a virus! Install me so I can spy on your habits!" 'virus' scanners. And all the toolbars in IE (I won't even try to pry her away from that)
I may not be the best at computers and likely have a few viruses on mine. But dear lord there's a point where it gets too much >.<
And she's a better user than my mom (although that isn't my mom's fault - she's using a laptop as old as XP itself because my dad refuses to get her a new one. My mom is intimidated by computers so it isn't pretty, and that laptop is so riddled with crap that I'd rather burn it after a priest has cast the demons in it back to cyber hell)
At least my grandmother still has Avast! installed
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My mother is the same way, and my grandmother is even worse. Doesn't help that she's using a computer so old the updates and antivirus alone have very nearly filled the hard drive.