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<blockquote data-quote="crlMIDI" data-source="post: 193648" data-attributes="member: 22235">Hi, I&#039;m a retired scientist (medical, chemistry/pharmaceutical) who&#039;s always made &amp; used computers, still does bits and pieces like developing MIDI (music) stuff on an Arduino, and tries to get others hooked on a possible pastime or career.I gave an old XP machine to a 13-year old neighbour. He tried to download free games and promptly caught just about every nasty item available, including porn. His PC double-boots Lubuntu, but these distros still have a bit of a learning curve for routine maintenance, they don&#039;t have the right games (which doesn&#039;t bother his parents...), and some features keep reverting from FR to US without being asked. Perhaps they will become really mainstream very soon, because several countries are now using them for running government services. I&#039;ll be interested to see how the malware industry reacts to that.I often download open source and other freeware, whenever possible from the original source, and am appalled by the difficulties. Deception is clearly involved in insinuating this malware, and because many people use their computers to earn a living, the economic consequences must be serious. Since this is illegal activity, whether or not ask.com and others have a website &quot;up front&quot;, it&#039;s difficult to understand why our precious national security agencies don&#039;t use them, as it were, for target practice in their cyberwar activities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="crlMIDI, post: 193648, member: 22235"] Hi, I'm a retired scientist (medical, chemistry/pharmaceutical) who's always made & used computers, still does bits and pieces like developing MIDI (music) stuff on an Arduino, and tries to get others hooked on a possible pastime or career. I gave an old XP machine to a 13-year old neighbour. He tried to download free games and promptly caught just about every nasty item available, including porn. His PC double-boots Lubuntu, but these distros still have a bit of a learning curve for routine maintenance, they don't have the right games (which doesn't bother his parents...), and some features keep reverting from FR to US without being asked. Perhaps they will become really mainstream very soon, because several countries are now using them for running government services. I'll be interested to see how the malware industry reacts to that. I often download open source and other freeware, whenever possible from the original source, and am appalled by the difficulties. Deception is clearly involved in insinuating this malware, and because many people use their computers to earn a living, the economic consequences must be serious. Since this is illegal activity, whether or not ask.com and others have a website "up front", it's difficult to understand why our precious national security agencies don't use them, as it were, for target practice in their cyberwar activities. [/QUOTE]

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