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Problem: Mom and her e-mailing college and pre-C friends are in 80s (much better than the alternative!) Due to own injury problems, I live at home and RTFM means Ring the Family Maven (for non-multilingual trivia collectors OxfordEngDict II-maven U.S. colloq. (ˈmeɪvən) Also mavin, mayvin. Pl. -im. [ad. Heb. mevin understanding.]An expert or connoisseur. [missed by OED - also a sarcastic reference to one who thinks he is but sure isn't "such a maven, he doesn't even know that ASA and ISO film speeds are the same these days - or that nobody uses film anymore."]

WHILE n='alive, I hope for many years more' Mom encounters strange site or fears malware and calls. End

NoScript is a fantastic program, but if you ramp it up to the point of usefulness, it becomes a pain sometimes for even experienced users with persistent yellow bars and messages. I love it, but see no way to install on her machine without raising the #calls by 8 orders of magnitude. A veritable Sagan of calls every day. Is there a formula anybody has for turning it into an Eric (Monty Python's Eric the half-a-bee)st that will catch the ugliest of the ugly that wont explode if she CCleans after exit) Avast Paid and Zone Alarm ditto back up security system. Man needs *some* downtime.

"Here comes a candle to light you to bed"

 

You can use "Allow scripts globally". It will remove the additional security against JavaScript and plugin 0 day exploits, but it will keep the other "Web 2.0" protection countermeasures against XSS, CSRF, HTTPS subversion and Clickjacking.