Six months, or so, ago I was brow-beaten’ to remove Linux from our community computer (that’s the one everybody else in my house uses) and reinstall Windows. With great reluctance and a warning I complied. The warning; “If it gets infected, someone else in this house is going to learn how to install Windows. I’m done with it!”
I was greeted with a note from my daughter this morning;
Daddy, Would you please fix my computer.
My first thought was; “Thanks for the detailed explanation!” The second was; “Don’t make me work on a Windows machine today!”
Sunday is not a day I normally do computer repair. But, when it’s prefixed with “Daddy” and contains “please”, I’m compelled to comply. So, upstairs I go. She left the computer on. The monitor read; “Boot device failure”. Cool, that usually means a virus or the hard drive took a dump. So, I powered down the machine, waited a minute and restarted. Viola! It boots. No problem found. Nothing to fix right! I have my fingers crossed.
While working on My machine this morning my wife decided to join me upstairs and search for employment. In the past 30 minutes, she’s mentioned 2 unexplainable pop-ups. So the community machine is likely infected with malware and who knows what else.
If they had stuck with Linux, there’d be no motivation for this post! Looks like my daughter’s gonna;
- learn how to eradicate malware and viruses from Windows
- or learn how to reinstall Windows
- or learn Linux and suck-it-up!
Learning new things is good right!
Orlando Ex. Arpt, FL