Steve Adams
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That's nothing special to windows. They all prey on the uneducated. Apple, Google, MS, etc.
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maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
What am I missing?
I did not see any discussions on old people and scammers in the flip/flop thread.
Anyways its not Windows fault and what do you propose Lenovo do for the fabled minded people?
Madhatter32
macrumors 68000
Telephones too. I, personally, hold Alexander Graham Bell for the awful scourge of elder fraud and abuse across the world.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68020
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Oh, doorbells, because scammers ring them and fable minded people open the door 😛
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
I just had to vent, mom’s laptop went 1_800 malware rouge and is now shutdown for a week or 2.
Too bad she can”t flip from microsoft since the party or anything in her head is dead.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I have news for you malware exists in macos and linux
Btw, I'm dealing with the same issues with my mother and she's on an iPad
Elder-computing is rough.
We put computers in my mother's house with internet access. Her approach to computing was to wait until one of her kids to come over, and ask them to do what she wanted on the computer in front of her. She saved up the things she wanted done on the computer until someone visited.
She also fell for telephone and mail scams.
There are a lot of vectors for scammers to get to the elderly.
One thing would be to remove all their dumbass bloated apps that are supposedly there to "help".
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I'm dealing with issues with iMessage, email, and facebook, and a couple her crossword puzzle apps. Its those apps that's been problematic lately as she'll get some sort of "ad" that says her account was compromised or something please click this link, blah blah blah
The issue, is she won't have anyting to do w/o those crossword apps. Facebook, and texting has been problematic in the past but again she uses those as well
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
Thanks for the replies,
shame the boat were are in is this big
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she had that lock screen 1800-CALL MSN repeated voice messages for an hour or so
util I came over to check up on her.
the problem with elders from the 1940's is they were weened to trust any authority,
whereas I can't advise mom how to use a computer, be safe, never submit a credit card etc
since I am not bill gates or a tech dude from the legion, and still a "12 year old.'
meanwhile I designed websites, fixed computers for and tech companies and know both platforms.
forget about giving mom health advice, we gave up on that.
so far five credit cards were wastefully used for a "monthly only" shipping fee of 29$,
no-launched norton virus, 12 big pens for 35$, 3 streaming series she won't watch, and a partridge on a pear tree!
the Lenovo is sitting in my place waiting for our family windows expert computer guy to look at this next week.
my problem is she does not know I have the laptop and might call the police,
or she just might forget she ever had one......or just stare were that was.
what a horrible brain rotting situation elder humans suffer nowadays.
shame the boat were are in is this big
'
she had that lock screen 1800-CALL MSN repeated voice messages for an hour or so
util I came over to check up on her.
the problem with elders from the 1940's is they were weened to trust any authority,
whereas I can't advise mom how to use a computer, be safe, never submit a credit card etc
since I am not bill gates or a tech dude from the legion, and still a "12 year old.'
meanwhile I designed websites, fixed computers for and tech companies and know both platforms.
forget about giving mom health advice, we gave up on that.
so far five credit cards were wastefully used for a "monthly only" shipping fee of 29$,
no-launched norton virus, 12 big pens for 35$, 3 streaming series she won't watch, and a partridge on a pear tree!
the Lenovo is sitting in my place waiting for our family windows expert computer guy to look at this next week.
my problem is she does not know I have the laptop and might call the police,
or she just might forget she ever had one......or just stare were that was.
what a horrible brain rotting situation elder humans suffer nowadays.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68020
It has nothing to do with windows. As mentioned before, every platform is the same. Marketing teams and fans will tell you otherwise.
To combat my parents getting into this trouble with their computer that they do their finances on, I got them two computers. One for mom to play her silly games on (malware beasts), and one that is only turned on to do their banking etc.
To combat my parents getting into this trouble with their computer that they do their finances on, I got them two computers. One for mom to play her silly games on (malware beasts), and one that is only turned on to do their banking etc.