Wife is literally the worst

[Cyracus]

Was just a rant that my wife virus raped her computer half to death, but since people are $%&ing morons and don't understand venting I'm just replacing it

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, Cyracus said:

I tell her to quit clicking on every little $%&ing thing on the internet or the laptop I got her will no longer be hers..... I'm 15 minutes into trying to login to the freaking admin account, 10 minutes was sitting at a black screen with just the mouse cursor (and task manager after a few minutes) and I'm betting that once I can finally get to settings it won't have been updated in 2 months (windows menu won't pull up)......hey windows+i shortcut got it up, but it's not loading........ went with the shotgun approach to killing suspected troublemakers and blue screened it...  god $%^* this woman's losing her freaking laptop

it's nice to know you control your wife's privileges like she's a child and you're her parent 

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Syntaxvgm said:

it's nice to know you control your wife's privileges like she's a child and you're her parent 

She's just screwing with him and making him think he's the one in control. 

[BingoFishy]

I'm glad you love her

[KuJoe]

I used to have similar troubles, then I switched my wife to a Chromebook and setup DNS filtering on our network and now both of our lives are so much better (she's so happy to not be dealing with Windows anymore and I'm happy that the ads and bad content won't load on any device on our network).

[Cyracus]

1 minute ago, KuJoe said:

setup DNS filtering on our network

don't quite have that luxury, she mostly uses it on networks I have no control over

[KuJoe]

Just now, Cyracus said:

don't quite have that luxury, she mostly uses it on networks I have no control over

Never considered that, time for me to build 2 external DNS servers and lock all of the devices to those servers.

[TheKDub]

4 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

don't quite have that luxury, she mostly uses it on networks I have no control over

Maybe try something like deep freeze?

http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/

 

It basically just sandboxes the PC unless you unlock it, so all you'd have to do is reboot the PC and it's cleaned up again. Maybe get a compact flash drive for it so she can store files on it outside the sandbox if needed.

[Bigbootyjudy]

17 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

I tell her to quit clicking on every little $%&ing thing on the internet or the laptop I got her will no longer be hers..... I'm 15 minutes into trying to login to the freaking admin account, 10 minutes was sitting at a black screen with just the mouse cursor (and task manager after a few minutes) and I'm betting that once I can finally get to settings it won't have been updated in 2 months (windows menu won't pull up)......hey windows+i shortcut got it up, but it's not loading........ went with the shotgun approach to killing suspected troublemakers and blue screened it...  god $%^* this woman's losing her freaking laptop

literally get her a Chromebook. If shes just surfing the web then its all she needs and it is so easy to use and you wont get so many viruses. Chromebooks cant really execute files like windows so its harder for it to get all of the bad stuff

[Godlygamer23]

Your wife is not the worst. You're comparing your wife to the likes of ISIS or Adolf Hitler, and they're still not the worst.

[KuJoe]

2 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

Maybe try something like deep freeze?

Good idea. Here's a free alternative I have this installed on one of my netbooks I let my kid use once in a while: http://horizondatasys.com/reboot-restore-rx/

[Tech_Dreamer]

Kyle is that you?

[Guest]

Install Qubes OS (Not suggesting its easy to use but at least you can take comfort in that it will be slightly more secure )

https://www.qubes-os.org/

[AshleyAshes]

21 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

I tell her to quit clicking on every little $%&ing thing on the internet or the laptop I got her will no longer be hers.....

Sounds like a healthy and highly functional marriage. 

[79wjd]

21 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

don't quite have that luxury, she mostly uses it on networks I have no control over

DNS filter and a VPN. 

[KuJoe]

2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

DNS filter and a VPN. 

I considered that but there's no reliable way to force the VPN to connect automatically and stay connected (not to mention some networks will block VPN connections). Moving the DNS servers to external servers is the best solution I can think of.

[Cyracus]

12 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Your wife is not the worst. You're comparing your wife to the likes of ISIS or Adolf Hitler, and they're still not the worst.

fair point 

11 minutes ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

Kyle is that you?

 no

 

To all you white knights, there's a reason I posted in off topic, I'm just ranting that my wife fucked her laptop over and the fact that I have to fix it because she has no clue how to do so, despite me teaching her how to maintain it and deal with issues if they arise. Obviously I'm not taking it from her, it'd be much easier just to leave it broken and just not worry about it. It's just a pain in my ass that shouldn't exist.

[Zodiark1593]

5 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

fair point 

 no

 

To all you white knights, there's a reason I posted in off topic, I'm just ranting that my wife fucked her laptop over and the fact that I have to fix it because she has no clue how to do so, despite me teaching her how to maintain it and deal with issues if they arise. Obviously I'm not taking it from her, it'd be much easier just to leave it broken and just not worry about it. It's just a pain in my ass that shouldn't exist.

Basically just a rant thread and nothing more. In every marriage, a little rain must fall.

 

I second Deep Freeze however. User friendly for the wife, and relatively little work on your part. Otherwise a Chromebook or even a Mac (not immune, but less common to come across malware) are viable options.

 

 Clearly the wife has no interest in computers beyond doing what she needs. The techie's job is to ensure that the computer will function well in the hands of these users. The computer exists to serve the user, and not the other way around. We just need to figure out how to make it so.

[KuJoe]

Just now, Cyracus said:

It's just a pain in my ass that shouldn't exist.

These are the struggles a lot of us have to deal with when living with people who don't have any concern for their security or privacy. I've been working on an idea for a while now on how to protect my family, devices, and network without having to rely on other people to change their habits which is really hard to do. So far the best I've come up with is the DNS filtering, VLANs for my important stuff, and locking down devices as best I can. I really should revisit this idea and flesh it out more.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Calm down and take time to literally walk your wife through what's she doing and why she shouldn't do it. Simply giving her commands like a dog isn't going to change anything. She might not be as tech savvy as you are, and that's okay. Most people aren't. 

[Cyracus]

7 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Basically just a rant thread and nothing more. In every marriage, a little rain must fall.

 

I second Deep Freeze however. User friendly for the wife, and relatively little work on your part. Otherwise a Chromebook or even a Mac (not immune, but less common to come across malware) are viable options.

Yeah, some people just haven't got to that point where they learn... or they passed that moment by...  But I've heard of deep freeze, just hadn't thought of it, thanks.

 

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Calm down and take time to literally walk your wife through what's she doing and why she shouldn't do it. 

I have, I did, no change

[Cyracus]

13 minutes ago, Nicholatian said:

try to check yourself before you go blaming people and things and losing your mind over a computer.

poison, good god no, you smack them around a bit to show them their place. You only poison them if they try to escape (No I'm not serious ffs, but being a psychology buff I can tell you that that's kinda how that one goes)

[AlwaysFSX]

Nah I agree, she's pretty bad.

[johnjohns111]

5 hours ago, TheKDub said:

Maybe try something like deep freeze?

http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/

 

It basically just sandboxes the PC unless you unlock it, so all you'd have to do is reboot the PC and it's cleaned up again. Maybe get a compact flash drive for it so she can store files on it outside the sandbox if needed.

 

Or a Virtual Machine

[Teddy07]

Marriage is huge mistake with divorce rates around 45% at least here in Germany