Computers and Viruses

Can't help you out. One thing about Pete's computer. His repair guy said he took out infected virus ware and put in Avast. That's what I use, and it seems to be highly recommended. It does slow things down, frantically checking every email and download, especially on my decades-old XP computer, but it works. Perhaps after it has better scoped out Pete's system, it will run more smoothly. And I say that completely off the top of my head with absolutely no reason to think it might be so. Virusware is all a mystery to me. Used to use McAfee for years. Now I use Avast. That's all I know.

Computers are still, really, in that age where you had to get the crank and walk around to the front of the flivver, and always be ready to be your own mechanic. Yet somehow they've been sold to everybody as self-driving monorail cars.

I blame programmers. All of them.