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Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC?

Posted by timothy on from the what's-the-late-2013-version? dept.

New submitter StirlingArcher writes "I've always built/maintained my parents' PC's, but as Mum has got older her PC seems to develop problems more readily. I would love to switch her to Linux, but she struggles with change and wants to stay with Vista and MS Office. I've done the usual remove Admin rights, use a credible Internet Security package. Is there anything more dramatic that I could do, without changing the way she uses her PC or enforcing a new OS on her again? One idea was to use a Linux OS and then run Vista in a VM, which auto-boots and creates a backup image every so often. Thanks for any help!"

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  1. Ubuntu by Nemura · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just teach her how to use Ubuntu.

  2. Hide the IE and MSO icons. by Nutria · · Score: 3, Funny

    Install Firefox, LibreOffice & Thunderbird. Insist that she use them. If she ignores your advice, tell her you can't/won't help her.

    (Living on your own, doing your own laundry and being over age 25 adds necessary gravitas.)

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    "I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
  3. Re:They're dead by morari · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bruce Wayne, is that you?

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    "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
  4. Re:Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Is this how sons-in-law say 'F- You' these days?"
    "Must be!"
    "Don't call him ever again."

  5. Re:Is it as bad a Symantec? by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it as bad a Symantec?

    No. In fact, I can't really think of anything that is. Maybe there are a few viruses that are as bad.

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    "Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
    --- Jerry Garcia