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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
i haven't had my dad or my brother and his wife call me for tech help once i cleaned everything up on their machines and installed Firefox, while also removing any shortcuts to IE. if you have friends and family who are useless on computers and you want to save yourself some headaches, that simple switch will save you repeatedly. Firefox is just such a better designed browser than IE, never had any malware/spyware issues with it, especially with Adblock Plus installed
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Trust me, I've done all that.
They use Firefox. They also have Adblock and Windows Defender installed. That doesn't protect them from my sisters deciding to download movies from Limewire and infesting their computer with hundreds of trojans and malware that can't be cleaned.
And this is after me giving specific guidelines on what not to do, namely, if it's illegal, DON'T DO IT. And then my mother goes ahead and drops 100$ on that Norton Antivirus which promptly destroys her system even worse then it was before. Also doesn't help that Windows XP "helpfully" allows every program to install a "start on startup" option that is not visible outside of "MSCONFIG". So when I do visit them, I have to fire that utility up and clean out all the ridiculous crap they managed to install - most of which was installed without their knowing.