fulllife

Although I spend a lot of time behind a computer, I am not a compjuter wizzard. I can download, upload, copy, paste, browse, write, edit, send emails with attachments…. but as soon as a problem occurs I cannot solve in 3 to 4 minutes, I am at a loss. It’s like driving a car: the car should drive, period. I pump gas, go have maintenance in the garage, so the thing should drive whenever I want it to. Same with computers.

Picture me browsing the internet, and suddenly I seem to have 1001 worms, even more Trojan Horses and other bugs in the computer… At least, that is what a pop up from Windows (mind you) tells me. But I have this fantastic anti virus, anti horses, worms, bugs, and whatever program, that updates every day, so how can this be. The pop up window does not let me close it (I don’t like pop ups anyway) keeps getting back to me the whole time… what is this? Is this for real or is this a scam to let me download some dangerous stuff (the pop up suggests I do a anti virus download, but I HAVE an anti virus program….). To be sure I let my own anti virus program do a quick scan of my computer… no problems detected. Then I go for the full scan…. so far no problems detected, scan still in progress. So again, what is this? Husband not home, so no way I can consult him (he’s the wizzard here)

Don’t you just hate those people that try to mess with your computer??? Arrgghh…. Do they act like I have all these trojan horses and worms, so that I panic and download some stuff??? Why don’t they just leave me alone? Why don’t they leave us all alone? Damaging other peoples data and computers…. don’t let me get my hands on them! I was so effective working on the things I have to do, and now I am totally distracted. But I don’t fall for their stunt…

Husband comes home, I tell him about the issue, and he agrees with me: don’t download anything you did not ask for, don’t let them get under your skin and drive you crazy…. Ha ha, I feel proud I did the right thing. I knew I did, but a little confirmation from the expert is ever so nice.

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