She lives at a University and she takes electronic transfers of papers, etc from all her students, so she gets exposed to all the neat new viruses and stuff as the kids seem to pass it along just like they do the biological germs.
University still uses Novell Server and WinXP, so don't be looking for Win7 to be saving anybody's bacon 'cause it ain't there yet.
I'll pass along your recommendation that she drop back to the quill pen and ink well era but I jest don't think that's very likely to happen.
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Stupidest thing she ever did was click on a link that told her her PC was infected with the AdAlert virus and click here to down-load the repair software ..... she was trusting Bile's Microsoft she was because the message looked like one of Bile's very own system alert windows.
Heck, I can remember back 10 years ago I got an email from my ISP saying my daughter's machine at college was a "bot farm bot" and was processing 10 megabytes of somebody else's net traffice every single day for me to pay "over allotment traffic" charges for.
She had logged on to some piratebay site of some sort and had "joined up" when asked to. She thought it was a torrent of some sort.
Not everything bad out there is Bile's fault to be sure, but I do find it interesting when I get a Linux Firefox alert that someone else is trying to control my machine and I find I have yet another ad-based something trying to "tick-suck" my processor cycles while it tracks my purchasing habits.
Linux isn't elitist, it is way way too boring for that.
If you think it is elitist then I guess you are saying you think it is in some ways superior -- I tend to think of it as boring reliable and Bile's stuff as being partially buggy defective in its basic structure.
Heck, XP is 10 years old and they are still patching it every Tuesday morning. It has gone through 3 major service pack rewrites and two smaller supplements on top of that. Plus 530 Tuesday AM forced updates ....
PS when Windows locks up, you tend to lose the file in process. If you have autosave on, you get like 10 minutes of loss to the saved file (which for Windows is an improvement over losing the whole durn thing).
Failing to ask Windows permission to unplug your jump drive and then scrambling hundreds of file names -- that is a file system structural flaw of more consequence.Did you know that Linux file systems don't permit your files to become fragmented very much at all? Defrag software doesn't really exist in Linux because it isn't needed?
Systems REGISTRY FILE is another Windows thing that drives systems nuts, making them run slower and slower over time as the file gets cluttered with crap over years of use.
Bile's baby has lots of non-optimal things about it to love.
Count up the money you have spent on Microsoft this and that over your years of computing .....
.... the total is plumb scary big and you got some pretty sorry stuff to use for having spent all that much money on it ....
Linux was written by computer professionals in their spare time as a ego fulfillment exercise and it costs zero $$$ for you to use it ....
.... the only price you pay is putting up with the boring goodness .....(and mebbe occasionally have some folks accuse you of being elitist and thinking of you like you use Apple stuff which is also boring good but VERY VERY EXPENSIVE dollar-wise)
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Here's your informative YouTube burb for today's current operating system advancements ....
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