[PLUG] Off Topic: Helping ultra-newbie (with Windows)?

[alan]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> Jon LeVitre wrote:
>> My Dad who lives "back east" just bought his first computer at the age
>> of seventymumble.
> <...>
>> I was thinking of sending him a CD with the latest OpenOffice, Firefox,
>> AdAware, Spybot S&D, etc.  Is there anything else I should put on it?
>> (anti-viris software, perhaps?)
>
> I'm using AVG Anti-Virus on my WinXP machine.
>
> http://www.grisoft.com/doc/Single/lng/us/tpl/tpl01?prd=sng.1.0.0

AVG is good. Not certain how well it will work for an ultra-newbie.

Classes are the best way. He needs someone local to talk with.

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