Do people ask you for help with their computers?
It turns out that most people are not as paranoid about the Internet as I am, in fact most people run java-script, ActiveX controls, .NET controls, and even allow Cookies. This is fine until they navigate to a web site from their friends or children, which starts to cause the computer to act problematic. If you are like me and have tried to explain to people that you are a computer developer and not a computer IT guy (much different skills to be good at each one and stay on top of the new programs etc) but they just look at you and say “you work with computers, right?”. If they still look to you for help, then first send them over to read this article “Weirdness with the Web: 3 stubborn Internet problems you can fix”. It may help them solve some of their problems on their own, if they don’t want to learn about computers maybe you can follow the steps.
One of the things the article suggests you do is run Microsoft Windows Defender. I have been planning on doing this, but just haven’t gotten around to it. Well this may come as a surprise to most of you, but just because I don’t go to many web sites and I don’t allow any of them to do anything except run HTML doesn’t guarantee anything. So after I ran the scan I was told I didn’t have any unwanted software! Give it a try and let me know if you have as much luck as I did.
