> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed > > Unless your mom does IT, you should treat it like a "black box" - you get & > prep a replacement system and send it to her, she ships you her old system > so you can save her data and do a remote restore. You're going to be the > family SysAdmin, and when it comes to remote systems think in big simple > chunks.
Better yet. (Cuz guess what, linux has problems too.) Get her a chromebook. I got one for my Mom, and one for my wife. We loved it so much, I got another for my wife. And guess what precipated it? My wife, in 2011, clicked on something about Justin Bieber, and got a virus on my laptop (the "family" laptop at the time.) She clicked on Justin Bieber, and then the screen flashed a few times, (I was near her and I saw it myself) and then something popped up saying "Your computer is infected, and the following passwords are being uploaded to the internet. Please click here to clean out the virus..." and it started scrolling by all my sensitive passwords - bank accounts and everything. My reaction: Nuke the computer (back to my Acronis image from yesterday). Reset all my passwords. Buy a chromebook for her. ;-) I also needed to buy a cloud printer. (I'm extremely happy with the Canon Pixma mx892) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
