22 September 2004

Our main advice to parents of younger Internet-using kids is never to try sharing a computer with their children. There is no safe way to share a computer with someone who will opens email attachments, downloads software and gizmos from the Internet, shares unknown software with their school friends and uses peer-to-peer file sharing programs. In any household with kids, the parents should have a computer that is permanently and forever off-limits to the children, and the children should have their own machine(s). Computers are inexpensive enough now that giving the kids their own is definitely the best security policy.

Then the parents can have some reasonable chance of using their own computer safely and reliably. And when the kids machine collapses under the weight of hundreds of viruses and Trojans and spyware fighting each other for control of the machine, as will certainly result from the kids inherently unsafe use of the Internet, their machine(s) can be reformatted from scratch, be setup fresh, and then repeat the process of dying from unsafe exposure to the Internet.

We offer a service to remove harmful spyware from your computers and restore them to their original state.