My other computer...

[MissWem]

[quote name='Baron Samedi][size=1'] I think that there are lots of people who with a little effort could help protect their machines, but they don't bother. Perhaps I am being judegmental and overly harsh, but I don't understand how people can not take any precautions. My stepsister downloads anything and everything. Her laptop is so bloated it disgusts me.[/size][/quote]
[COLOR=DarkRed][SIZE=1]Yes there are a lot of those people and yes I find it quite horrifying as well.

Every other week I hear a friend that has a computer so badly damaged they aren't even allowed to turn it on. I ask them what they were downloading and all I get is a vague answer to do with anything and everything. To make it worse I might ask them about something as simple as using applications like ad-aware and spy-bot and they look at me with the most painfully clueless look. My mum got a new computer for about 6 months and it stopped connecting to the internet because she picked up something by trusting that stupid auto-windows update software.

I've used computers for about half my life and I have never.. ever abused it so badly that it needed anything more than cleaning up my folders to make more disk space.

Even now, I'm using a piece of computer junk that's at least 10 years old and the biggest problems I get is too many tracking cookies taking up disk space >_> However when I do get my new computer hooked up to the internet I'll definitely look into the thread about computer health ^_^[/SIZE][/COLOR]