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by mlac 7y ago
Update: thanks for the suggestions and the other thread. I did the following: - blocked anonymous callers from calling (unrelated but related) - created an admin account on his machine and removed his admin privileges (his use case for the
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by mlac 7y ago
It's not so much that. I had switched to Mac in 2007 and got them to switch. At the time it was much different in terms of viruses, and that machine ran smoothly until 2018 (I added ram and swapped HDD to SSD along the way I think). I
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by mlac 7y ago
Fair point... And I get that education is key, but I'm trying to throw up technical solutions as best I can so they can maintain their online freedom. I'm thinking routing their DNS to a pihole, getting them a static IP so I can V
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by mlac 7y ago
Yeah. He's on a Chromebook now but there are still ways it can go sideways. And toolbars continuously get installed (I need to lock that down next time I'm there). This could be a benefit of banking by App using an iPad like anoth
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by mlac 7y ago
It didn't. It was a fake add pop up that said it had a Windows virus. It was convincing enough for him to get on the phone and be ready to pay $300 to Windows to fix the virus until my dad walked in the room and stopped him.
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by mlac 7y ago
That's a good call. He never got into iOS and is used to using pages and mail on OS X to get edit documents and read email. But maybe that is the best option...
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by mlac 7y ago
For more context - I was thinking of setting up a pie hole on their local network and forcing a VPN from the Chromebook to home network, but this has some availability downsides. For a weekend project I was ocnsidering an AWS solution that
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Ask HN: How did you set up a secure computer for your parents/grandparents?
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