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Wisest Elder Ever
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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Relatives who use your computer...especially kids....
A warning... If they visit a dangerous site, you can be spammed with pop ups, endlessly, or your homepage hijacked, or a virus inserted via cookies...
My friend let her 10 yr old nephew use hers once and it took special programs to get rid of the pop-ups!
Sometimes the kids are clueless as to what is what. And sometimes they try to look at naughty pictures, esp if a peer has been bragging about them.
I visit another forum online (it uses vBulletin too) but it is not a health forum and is quite busy-mostly politics. Their moderation is not the same as here, and new members can post links. Well a few days ago a person was banned for bad behavior and came back angry and put up a link that looked benign, six people clicked on it and got viruses. Two had major problems because they were not up to date on their protections! NT has more safeguards, but clever people can always bypass those, just like on the street with crime/theft.
Never ever click on blind links...that say "click here" etc., either. That is one of my biggest rules!
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