Apr
14
Seniors and virus problems
Filed Under Technology
A couple of hours ago, my wife’s dad called me up to say that there is something wrong with his computer. It started acting up so weird that he literally could not do anything in front of his computer. Everything seems OK but all of a sudden, all of his programs started running at the same time and it made him do nothing.
It was a virus alright. Considering all those games that he had me install in his machine, without a doubt the computer will act berserk if all of them run at the same time. The frozen screen took the smile off his face. He was frustrated alright. Its a good thing that I was just on my way to work and I skipped breakfast so that I could come over to his place. I took a look at his computer and I saw how the virus worked.
As soon as the computer was booted, it does the trick. Nothing you else you can do even if I did all that I could to by-pass it. That is a big problem alright. Especially if you can’t do anything. So I had to clean format his computer and for a change, I gave him a list of the current virus lurking around today. How he got it, I would not know but I installed a firewall and some anti-virus to guard his computer.
Either way, technology still has an issue among seniors. It frustrated my father-in-law easily. Based on what happened today, I learned one thing - be there to console a senior (especially when it comes to technology).
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