In-reply-to » I didn’t know this was a thing. Well, local home improvement store believes so.

To everyone reading this, please make sure the elderly people in your life know to be very skeptical of unsolicited messages from companies, banks, government institutions, and pop-ups that say their computer is infected.

I would recommend getting them the hell off of Windows as well if you can, installing uBlock Origin in their browser, and disabling all browser notifications. Linux Mint is a great distribution for non-technical people. Just tell them to only install software from the Software Manager application and to think of it like the app store on their phone.

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