[OT] MacDefender

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 05/19/2011 09:47 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to
> NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her
> take care of it using screen sharing.

My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fairly 
effectively hosed his
laptop; now into week 4 of a trans-Europe (England-Bulgaria) e-mail 
attempt to "unhose"
things . . .
> She did, and she was very alert for anomalies after that. Screen sharing is
> a great thing for helping aging parents. She was pretty good online until
> the last year.
>
> On 19 May 2011 11:38, J. Landman Gay<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 5/19/11 1:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, if you've
>>> downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what you deserve. Any
>>> app
>>> I'm going to install or buy will have to be investigated first before I
>>> let
>>> it touch my hard drive.
>>>
>> I want to agree in general, but we're not completely representative of the
>> Mac user base. My mother would have panicked and installed it. She only
>> knows how to use her Mac to get email, and still doesn't understand what
>> Finder does.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
>> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
>
> more about sqb<http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar>
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