Link to an educational website about viruses?

JonJ678

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It's taken three days for my parents-in-law to go from a new windows 7 install, updated, with MSE running in the background and malwarebytes available on demand, to a broken install riddled with malware. Neither of them using admin accounts.

This is absurd. I drafted an email explaining in words of one syllable that websites are not friendly places giving you nice things for free, even if they're offering to speed up your computer. The better half has vetoed me sending this.

Does anyone have a suitable link bookmarked? Containing advice like "don't click the button in the banner, even if the monkey tells you to", which I can direct them to?
 
The first one looks especially solid. I think I'll print it out and post it to them (it's just easier that way)

Thank you :)
 
No worries :) I've tried all manner of things from links, lectures to plastering their monitor in post it notes. Yet consistently every month or so I'm refreshing their install :D Its got to the extent I now have a norton image I use and have set up a dropbox account to auto backup their files to the cloud.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck :)

May I suggest installing ad-block or similar to negate the majority of these performance promising monkeys :D
 
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I would sincerely love to know how they're running a fresh, assumingly patched, Windows install into the ground with no administrator access in a matter of days just browsing the web. That is indeed ridiculous.
 
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I would sincerely love to know how they're running a fresh, assumingly patched, Windows install into the ground with no administrator access in a matter of days just browsing the web. That is indeed ridiculous.
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My computer illiterate sister manages it. Every time I wipe it, it dies soon after. Thankfully in the last round of the chaos, the wireless stopped working, so she has no internet access. The only way she is getting it back is if Ubuntu goes on there.
 
It's probably less advanced than that, people just download crap, run it and trash their local profile.

The only way to avoid this is to move to a mandatory profile or set restrictions on where applications can be run from (which I'm not sure you can do on a Home version of Windows). Or throw the thing away and only let them use a Chromebox.
 
To be honest I've;

•set UAC to highest so they can't install anything.
•prevented attachments in emails through outlook.
•used ad block to prevent popups.
•used a blacklist to prevent certain URLs/ips from being opened in browsers.
•standard av/firewall.

Yet they still manage to get infected. I just can't fathom how :(
 
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