Wife and daughter killing my pc

Hey guys, this is one for all of you that are married /kids or have another person living with you.

So my wife discoved the internet about a month ago, and at about the same time so did my 10 year old daughter. Up until this time the computer was my domain, no one else ever touched it or even realized it existed. Since then my wife is now receiving more spam and random emails than i get in a year (all of mine are legitimate btw) and this morning she calls and says there is a trojan on the system. I told her to turn the d**n thing off and leave it alone. SO she calls me 5 minutes ago and says that powerscan is installed on my account and why was i using a program to remove porn.

Needless to say now not only do i have to remove virus's tonight i'm also looking at having to remove spyware now because she just couldn't follow directions and turn it off. I am so po'd right now its not funny. I've been telling her since i gave her an e-mail address a month ago how to use the computer and internet and be safe about it, but she just doesnt listen!!!!! And my daughter is even worse. She visits the pokemon or neopet sites constantly and keeps downloading crap......ARGH. THe funny thing is that my wife thinks the sites are ok since they're for kids. WHat a joke!!

Well the jokes on them, tonight i'm putting together a comp just for them, changing the wifes e-mail, and then i'm gonna sit back with a cold beer, and watch the mayhem. I give it 3 weeks before the computer is hosed and needs a good formatting. Anyone wanna place any bets? /rant.

matttaylor said:

Well the jokes on them, tonight i'm putting together a comp just for them, changing the wifes e-mail, and then i'm gonna sit back with a cold beer, and watch the mayhem. I give it 3 weeks before the computer is hosed and needs a good formatting. Anyone wanna place any bets? /rant.

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ROFL.
I guarentee within 3 days you will hear... "umm, honey... My new computer is screwed up. I think you do something wrong when you built it"

I know how you feel. I dont know how many times I have to tell my wife, SMILEYS ARE EVIL. They may be cute, but they are evil. Unfortunately, I dont have anywhere to put a computer for them. I attempted setting up user accounts in XP. No luck. That crap still spreads the same. Now I just do a reformat once every 2 or 3 months. It's not that my wife is computer illiterate, she just has poor web surfing habits.

No doubt, she uses smileys all the time on her forums, and even opens a window each time that has links for smileys. ARGH, well i don't exactly have room for her comp either but when i set up the folding table, i think she'll start to listen a little better. BTW my "computer room" is in the family room in the front of the house and everyone who comes over sees the room. haha.

im called many times for advice from my x-wife as either her or my stepson has downloaded crap that messes the whle rig up.
i give them one simple answer. restore it! im not fixing it.

this way they loose everything they saved which is useless imo anyhow.soon enough they will learn to be more responsible after going threw this a few times.

Ah yes, I had the same problem with my dad. He's over 60 well like all men likes porn and porn=viruses, trojans and all kinds of computer problems so after he screwed up my comp few times I convinced him to get one for himself, I did setup an XP account with NO privileges and installed NOD32 with SpyBot and the computer has been running great for about a year, no re formats or anything.

Ghost that baby. Will make life easier.

my wife is very computer illiterate... but all she does is play Sims 2: University and talk on AIM to her mom. Her computer is actually VERY virus and spam and trojan and malware-of-your-choice free

i give it 5 days untill it wont boot.
my family luckily has good surfing habits so a spybot and virus scan every month-ish is enough.

My sister is a Neopets-obsessed, violent, angry little 13 year old(little too old to play neopets in my opinion). She has broken my computer and deletes my win32 and System files on "accident". She sneaks into my room to play The Sims but I set a BIOS password and that seemed to help. My parents are pretty good at keeping the computer clean and don't let my sister use it so she has her own laptop with problems galore. I run a Virus Scan and a Spyware Scan every week or so. As for your family computer, If they are anything like my sister, it will take a day to break it(she plays THAT much).

-1cem4n

Mate,

Switch to Linux as your first boot OS. A lot harder to destroy!

my wife knows how to use a computer. But i still get the HUNNY it is not working and i have to walk out to the front room and fix it.

But i understand the sharing of computers. We had one for the both of us that lasted for about a month after i got back from overseas and i got her a laptop. Some of the stuff she downloads kills me. It is not bad stuff just programs that she thinks is cute. I just keep locking sites down with Smoothwall now. If they cant get to them they cant install it

Lotec

I could never stand sharing a computer... I'd end up going insane or flipping out and hurting someone

Vulcan said:

I could never stand sharing a computer... I'd end up going insane or flipping out and hurting someone

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Same here, it just bugs me because even though it's not their computer it seems like they still feel the need to go in and change random settings and/or download some stupid crap. All the guests at my house use the family computer.

JudgeDredd said:

Same here, it just bugs me because even though it's not their computer it seems like they still feel the need to go in and change random settings and/or download some stupid crap. All the guests at my house use the family computer.

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I limit the guests to using my bathroom

I haven't shared a computer with my wife since our old HP witha 400mhz Celeron was top of the line.

Since then she has learned a little about what bad and good. After I had to reformat her current computer and was unble to save anything due to the viral contet she finally listens to me a little. It took loosing a thousand or so pics that she uses for photo enhancment work before she belived me that she was the cause. Of course I got the "I'm not going to any sites that I could get viruses from." After arguing with her for several hours that she had to be, I relented and let her use my computer to check her mail while I was repairing her comp.

It took her 10 mins to screw up my malware, spyware, virus free. After getting back on it my self and seeing the pop ups start, I ran a scan. 10 min and she got over 500 hits on ad-aware alone. After showing her how ****ed I was and that it was her fault she finally took the hint that it was her fault.

Hey, I play Neopets and I'm way over 13...problem with that site is that it's full of adware and other crap that will bog a box down quick if you don't have a good hosts file (1cem4n, if you want, PM me and I can email you a copy of my hosts file that has almost every ad site they use).

How the HELL can win32/system files be deleted "on accident"?!

I only let others use Navi if I'm in the room; my laptop is only touched by me.

There's the odd time when I have to spend a day or so cleaning crap off my mom's computer but there hasn't been anything too horrible. My dad uses Gator (or whatever it's calling itself this week)

At least im not alone!! haha, well i built her a computer and now she off and running. I tried to install linux but it doesnt seem to like the onboard video on her board so i had to use windows. Shes happy, my comp is now used only by me and i told her im not touching her computer until it breaks down. Now the only problem is that she can sit over my should all the time and make comments about what im typing on here. At leasat we get to spend quality time together in front of our computers!!!!!

Dreamstalker said:

Hey, I play Neopets and I'm way over 13...problem with that site is that it's full of adware and other crap that will bog a box down quick if you don't have a good hosts file (1cem4n, if you want, PM me and I can email you a copy of my hosts file that has almost every ad site they use).

How the HELL can win32/system files be deleted "on accident"?!

I only let others use Navi if I'm in the room; my laptop is only touched by me.

There's the odd time when I have to spend a day or so cleaning crap off my mom's computer but there hasn't been anything too horrible. My dad uses Gator (or whatever it's calling itself this week)

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The told my parents about it but they took her side and said that I probably broke it. They think that whatever happens to my computer, I did even though they see her in my room on my computer. I think I'm going to use Dog Crap as a TIM in her new laptop.

-1cem4n

I feel extremely lucky. I have my own machine and nobody else touches it. My sister has her own machine and knows to avoid everything online, but she has been using computers as long as I have so that's no big suprise. If she needs anything done on my machine she'll just leave a note on my desk.
As for the parents, they don't do anything other than e-mail. And they do that one their own machine.

My computer == MY computer. My brothers get to use it, but ONLY if they ask first, they are not allowed to surf the internet on it, use AIM, etc. as they play games online, and thus bog down my poor lil system .

I even installed a hosts file...