I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her take care of it using screen sharing.
She did, and she was very alert for anomalies after that. Screen sharing is a great thing for helping aging parents. She was pretty good online until the last year. On 19 May 2011 11:38, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 5/19/11 1:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> Anyway, if you've >> downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what you deserve. Any >> app >> I'm going to install or buy will have to be investigated first before I >> let >> it touch my hard drive. >> > > I want to agree in general, but we're not completely representative of the > Mac user base. My mother would have panicked and installed it. She only > knows how to use her Mac to get email, and still doesn't understand what > Finder does. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode