Last night (7/14/13) I went to neighbors house to try to fix a multitude of problems. It appeared as if the Machine had not been updated in quite sometime. In addition it had a lot of excessive software installed.
The virus basically takes a photo of you and uses some official FBI looking logo, freezes your computer and tells you that you have been caught downloading child pornography. Yep. A rather disgusting and very sick thing to say or do to someone who's trying to erase a virus from a computer.
Needless to say, I was unable to get rid of that virus off the computer. We did figure out that the virus warning was a hoax. We tried one of the online solutions, but the virus is too persistent to allow you to get to take it off. I'm suppose to give this computer another try this week. It's going to either be me or a much superior techie. All of this happened because they handed over their computer to their kids, teenagers, who downloaded everything - including a virus onto this machine.
But this does bring me to this point, we are the adults, we spend a lot of money to purchase these tech items for ourselves and our families. If we really took say...15 minutes here and there to learn about the devices we use everyday. Don't start bellyaching that it's too hard to learn this stuff to me. I personally think that learning about today's computer's is 1000 times more easier than it was 5 or 10 years ago. With just a little time spent, anyone can get a good working knowledge of the machines that we use in our everyday life. Had my neighbors taken some simple steps in regards to their laptop use, they would not have this problem today. Sit down and learn a little something folks...because the computer age is here.
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