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red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This requires more work but don’t make anyone an admin of their computer if they don’t know what they’re doing and you have to clean it up.

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  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My uncle wasn’t the admin of his (Windows) computer, but he managed to install a web browser that was basically malware. The damn thing didn’t require any admin permissions to install, and it automatically ran a powershell script to reinstall itself if it was removed. I had to edit the registry to remove it. It’s crazy.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My mother has the sudo password. It’s fine, she doesn’t mess with the command line unless I write an email saying “open terminal and copy and past this command into it…”

    And even then I have to be on the phone with her to explain how to open the terminal. But that’s way easier than trying to explain how to navigate through a bunch of menus.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Agreed! It’s just way easier to explain “open that black box thingy here and then write what i sent ya”

      Than “click this, then do that, click this, then write this here press windows and R, write this, the click that…”

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