Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post
??? three laptops getting infected. I wonder if your router has been hacked with malware. Unfortunately, this can happen. Just glad that your laptop from Micro Center is working fine.

I always wondered what an average PC users have to do or what they do to get the problems fixed. You are the fifth person or so who had major major problems with PC. One gal took her PC to a PC guy and spend $$ get it fixed. Norwegian next door had a contract and paid a monthly fee to have his PC running.

I also do not like McAfee. I use Malwarebyte. It updates often. And I do a complete scan. One downside is that there are few malwares that target the Malwarebyte software.
I have a friend who did not secure her wifi and got all sorts of bad stuff from the folks who were using her connection.

I'm PC all the way; macs do not make sense to me. But you ask, how do people do it? Every computer I have purchased since 1997 has been a custom build. First from my neighbor, then my son, and now a local computer store. These are clean running systems, loaded with only the operating system and drivers, and my requested software. I run the full Malware Bytes programs. I have had very few issues over the years. I have bought all the laptops from this local computer place: they reformat the OS with a clean, bloat ware free install.

Now, we did try one local place that was like a geek nightmare: unkempt gamer types in stained clothing....eek! Then we found place that started with office machines way back when ,and then just kept up with the times, providing full services from custom builds, repairs, networking and do I .