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Re: technologically ignorant parents

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SwagInABag is not online. SwagInABag
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24 Aug 2013 07:43 AM
my parents said not to download anything because our AVG free trial or some thing like that has stopped working

i ask my mom if i can download avast which is the highest rated program for virus protection in the world

she makes a huge fit about how avast couldn't protect you from everything (what makes her blindly trust avg, i do not know) and that rambles on about stuff that she believes to already be viruses.

she also blames any glitches on viruses
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ford08105 is not online. ford08105
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24 Aug 2013 07:59 AM
lol that's worse than my dad
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BrockRocksYourSocks is not online. BrockRocksYourSocks
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24 Aug 2013 08:00 AM
I seem to be having neck spasms. And they're all aimed at my desk.
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Superluigiconroy is not online. Superluigiconroy
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24 Aug 2013 08:01 AM
avira is better imo but that's beside the point
thankfully my parents understand technology

leader of the tracksuit mafia
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Shock77 is not online. Shock77
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24 Aug 2013 08:05 AM
my dad thinks i might have somehow downloaded a virus while going on amazon to look for a used game. We did get a virus but I find it almost impossible that I did it.
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noswad0208 is not online. noswad0208
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24 Aug 2013 08:09 AM
my dad thinks that by downloading a font on dafont i'll get a virus
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BrockRocksYourSocks is not online. BrockRocksYourSocks
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24 Aug 2013 08:26 AM
My parents are not THAT functionally illiterate, but they seem to think the Save button is in everything and that there's no such thing as a load time or delay.
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rampagekiller3 is not online. rampagekiller3
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24 Aug 2013 08:27 AM
Avast is a good program, however, I just use Malwarebytes... And even then... I don't get viruses.
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coolmanownz is not online. coolmanownz
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24 Aug 2013 08:36 AM
common sense is the best antivirus
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zoozooba444 is not online. zoozooba444
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24 Aug 2013 08:40 AM
oh we all have those parents.

Anything to do with computers in the house is automatically my domain, and if anything stops working they expect me to know whats exactly wrong with it and how to fix it.

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Ihurtnoobs is not online. Ihurtnoobs
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24 Aug 2013 08:45 AM
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rampagekiller3 is not online. rampagekiller3
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24 Aug 2013 08:45 AM
@zoo

Not really, my dad is quite good at using a PC... However, if he needs help he usually goes straight to me. I guess parents like that are just rare... But whatever. I also have a friend whose dad is good with PC hardware and such, and can fix dead HDDs and other things.
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Samastrike is not online. Samastrike
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24 Aug 2013 08:47 AM
If they don't pay for an antivirus program and don't trust the free ones either then they deserve viruses. But seriously, common sense goes a long way to preventing viruses.

It sounds like you need to have a serious talk with your mum about these things and hint to her just how little she actually knows about this.
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Sonic5479 is not online. Sonic5479
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24 Aug 2013 08:48 AM
"Anything to do with computers in the house is automatically my domain, and if anything stops working they expect me to know whats exactly wrong with it and how to fix it."

my mom does that all the time
it's so annoying

"grandma told me i shouldnt upload videos to youtube because child predators will memorize my voice and come to our house, take me out in a field and shoot me"

...what
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shan780 is not online. shan780
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24 Aug 2013 09:20 AM
my mum things that free downloads cost money
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Sonic5479 is not online. Sonic5479
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24 Aug 2013 09:21 AM
@shan
i apologize for the all caps, but it's the only way i can get my thoughts across properly.

WHAT THE HELL IS HER PROBLEM.
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shan780 is not online. shan780
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24 Aug 2013 09:24 AM
i don't know. she just gets really paranoid about that kind of thing because she saw this one thing on the news, where a kid downloaded something and bought 1000s of pounds worth of ingame cash with his grandad's credit card
i've tried to tell her that the kid was just an idiot, but she doesn't listen.
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TheGuyWithTheLMG is not online. TheGuyWithTheLMG
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24 Aug 2013 09:24 AM
@ihurt
Voice tracking so legit111111
I think she means don't upload anything that will make someone want to shoot you
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Sonic5479 is not online. Sonic5479
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24 Aug 2013 09:27 AM
@shan
christ...ignorant AND moronic.
she seems incredibly unlikable.
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Samastrike is not online. Samastrike
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24 Aug 2013 09:29 AM
She obviously doesn't seem to realise that you don't need to provide credit card details for FREE downloads...
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Sonic5479 is not online. Sonic5479
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24 Aug 2013 09:34 AM
She obviously doesn't seem to realise that you don't need to provide credit card details for FREE downloads... x2
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RadiKool22 is not online. RadiKool22
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24 Aug 2013 09:44 AM
Anything to do with computers in the house is automatically my domain, and if anything stops working they expect me to know whats exactly wrong with it and how to fix it. x2

Also, my friend told me his computer was slow, so I decided to download Malwarebytes and all that, but of course I didn't finish.

And then he said his computer was slower, and when he got rid of the programs, he said it was all gone.

He just can't accept that I'm smarter then him at technology.
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TheAsassin is not online. TheAsassin
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24 Aug 2013 09:46 AM
"this thing has a TERABYTE of memory! why is it so slow?!"
i literally heard my dad say that once
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zoozooba444 is not online. zoozooba444
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24 Aug 2013 09:48 AM
@TheAsassin.

Right, my father seems to think the more things you have on a hard-drive, the slower it goes.
Same for icons on the desktop.
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AquaRaider1 is not online. AquaRaider1
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24 Aug 2013 09:48 AM
common sense is the best antivirus x2
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