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<blockquote data-quote="monkeylove" data-source="post: 968827" data-attributes="member: 19756">No children (the ages range from young adults to seniors), but only one of the nine has the most knowledge about this issue (me), and a second intermediate knowledge. They also regularly visit various websites and use different apps (office software, video, audio, and graphics editors), don&#039;t know or don&#039;t want to know how to back up and recover other than making copies of files in another folder or drive, and so on. I had to install adblockers, backup programs, etc., for them. Some even panicked when popups in Kaspersky showed up telling them to consider installing this or updating that, even though I already disabled as many info notifications I could find. So, you can imagine what mayhem can take place if I even try something like a default-deny feature, or using something other than an admin account (they call me and complain that this or that can&#039;t be installed), or UAC turned on, or what I experienced when I tried using advanced features in Defender (they call and complain that they can&#039;t load this or that file).So, now I had Avast free installed in their machines in silent mode for the past few weeks, and no complaints so far. Probably, at worst, they will encounter one site that they can&#039;t access, and they&#039;ll only know when they actually look at the system bar and wonder what that blue dot means in the Avast icon. LOL.Finally, I think most who participate in security forums have no idea what most computer users are like, which is why the advice given always refers to those with at least intermediate knowledge of computers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="monkeylove, post: 968827, member: 19756"] No children (the ages range from young adults to seniors), but only one of the nine has the most knowledge about this issue (me), and a second intermediate knowledge. They also regularly visit various websites and use different apps (office software, video, audio, and graphics editors), don't know or don't want to know how to back up and recover other than making copies of files in another folder or drive, and so on. I had to install adblockers, backup programs, etc., for them. Some even panicked when popups in Kaspersky showed up telling them to consider installing this or updating that, even though I already disabled as many info notifications I could find. So, you can imagine what mayhem can take place if I even try something like a default-deny feature, or using something other than an admin account (they call me and complain that this or that can't be installed), or UAC turned on, or what I experienced when I tried using advanced features in Defender (they call and complain that they can't load this or that file). So, now I had Avast free installed in their machines in silent mode for the past few weeks, and no complaints so far. Probably, at worst, they will encounter one site that they can't access, and they'll only know when they actually look at the system bar and wonder what that blue dot means in the Avast icon. LOL. Finally, I think most who participate in security forums have no idea what most computer users are like, which is why the advice given always refers to those with at least intermediate knowledge of computers. [/QUOTE]

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