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I wasted half a day on fixing my mother's PC. More precisely Firefox. It opened every few minutes an error message that its profile couldn't be loaded. However it was all caused by Kaspersky Anti Virus. Deactivating it made it not complain again.
Saturday, 13-Jul-19 17:35:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan Reminds me of a story, now the details have been lost to time but I distinctly remember that somehow a professional looking "anti-anti virus" sign being made for our local version of a computer convention.
"128 of the best selected virusses to nuke down your pesky anti-virus" "Pester your system with Sircam, Nimda, Klez, Sapphire, Gaybird, NuclearRAT, Sasser, Blaster, and all our other pattented 'lifesavers'" ( You may have noticed that those are mostly famous virusses from the first half of the 2000's )
Some people actually inquired for our 'product' on the day of the convention. One of them actually wanted to use it because he would be fired sooner or later.
Morale of the story is... Virus Killers are snakeoil these days, attacks are most likely to come from within. Like BadUSB, No AntiVirus gonna protect you from an angry employee.
... Or dumb mother ? Idunno.Saturday, 13-Jul-19 18:31:39 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony My mother is so frightful in respect to computers that she rather does nothing than anything when a message window appears. She uses her computer mainly for looking for images, google maps/earth, writing greeting card texts and printing, and SOLITAIRE. So there won't be anything infecting her PC. I don't use any anti virus (none on Linux duh) except for Windows Defender because it comes with Windows and does the least amount of damage.
Saturday, 13-Jul-19 18:44:39 UTC from web
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@adiwan Off in the distance you hear a voice (probably mine) whispering "Chromebook, Chromebook"
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 08:11:32 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I would call Ghostbusters. Class B haunting. Not to mention the terrible advice.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 08:25:51 UTC from web -
@thismightbeauser I'll never buy a chromebook. They have the worst price-value proposition in my opinion. I'd rather install any Linux distro and get a similar end-user experience.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 09:25:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan That's nice for you, but we were talking about a Mom. I actually have a Chromebook for my tech self though and it's serviceable. It's easy enough to tear apart if you want to, but even staying inside the framework that Google has set up gets you pretty far since it can run Linux, Android, and ChromeOS.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 11:07:20 UTC from web -
@adiwan Desktop Linux distros are fine but after a while but I got tired of FrankerZing with them. I'd rather use my computer to make stuff than have tinkering with it be an end unto itself, because it makes me crazy.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 11:10:48 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I know. ChromeOS lacks the customization and the hardware itself is too expensive for what it's worth. My mother doesn't need to configure it, I need it whenever there is a problem.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 11:13:56 UTC from web-
@adiwan I guess being shunned has put me out of practice with fixing family computer problems.
Sunday, 14-Jul-19 12:11:34 UTC from web
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