No, not mine….. I am happy to say my computer is chugging along quite happily at the moment, even though it is nearing its 10th birthday! No, it is our daughter’s new laptop that is causing grief.
Our daughter has got back into composing music just recently and decided to buy herself a 4-track machine to properly record her compositions. Years ago, she had use of a 4-track which was jointly owned by our son and his friend – but the friend went peculiar and threatened all kinds of nasty things…… and so, the 4-track stayed with him! I have often wondered why our daughter did not then buy her own machine – but it seems that until now it never even occurred to her to do so.
Anyway, she bought one from EBay (amazingly it was new, but unused). The problem then was that her laptop (now about 7 years old) has been threatening to go wrong for ages and did not anyway have enough space to store the music tracks….. so she decided to buy a new laptop.
New laptop arrived and was duly set up. That was when the problems really started though as daughter has found it difficult to work out how to connect it all up in order to transfer the music from her keyboard to the laptop. She has at least her third lead on order at the moment as she struggles to understand how to get it all set-up.
Her real problem though has been in the fact that during the course of her quest to sort it all she has apparently downloaded free music software. She subsequently found out through doing a scan with Malwarebytes that she had no less than 400+ items of malware on her shiny new computer! Malwarebytes reported that it had cleared them all, but yesterday there was evidence that all was still not well.
The problem for yours truly is that my family have somehow gotten it into their heads that I am some kind of computer expert (oh, how wrong can you be!). Thus far, I have only been asked for advice on what checks to run. I do fear though that this will not be the end of the story……… 😦 😦 😦
Holes In The Sky 