Oh No, She Did!

I confess to occasional benevolent snooping and sometimes this can be an asset for my family. Last night I was piddling around in the general direction of the kitchen when I happened to overhear Mom having an intense phone conversation. Ordinarily, this wouldn't prick my ears a bit, but I did happen to catch a bit of context that put me on high dander alert. She was engaged in a technical conversation about a 'fatal virus' on her computer-OH NO! Craps! I have fended off several annoying scam calls attempting to coerce her into parting with her bucks for nada. I just love that trite Indian guy from 'Windows' that just wants to help us remove a virus he has detected due to suspicious activity, blah blah blah. Oh Puleease! That one is as tired as ten year old panties! (Sorry folks from India, I'm not intending to disrespect you in any form-it's just that usually this fella has a rather identifiable accent-heck it could be a put on for all I know and he could be sitting in his mamma's basement in Chicago) I am the very unwilling IT administrator for my family. Necessity forced me into the role and shear fiddling experience has been my only teacher. I feel woefully inadequate since I am not sporting a formal education in this area. Over the years I have battled all sorts of viral predicaments, some with success and others with abysmal failure. It is my duty. I just had to help Mom save her little Toshiba from these monsters too. So I told her to just hang up and I got to work-developing a tedious pain in my rear. Literally. OK, so she got the annoying will not go away pop up version with the phone number that she promptly called. Gah! I hate how this thing torments the gullible! Luckily, she had not completed the process(that I could discern) of allowing these B#st@!!!
remote access to her little machine, so it was just a matter of shutting the horrid pop up down via task manager, removing cookies, and doing some assorted malware scans (I hope). I fiddled with several other things too, but I'm not going to list it all here because I'm tired and the info is out there for you to discover at will if you need it. How I love the internet!
I really loathe these particular scammers because it seems they target the senior demographic under the assumption that people in Mom's age bracket are not so tech savvy. Ho-ho and then the jerk had the nerve to call back while I am in the midst of this! Sometimes I  mess with their minds, but I was just plain aggravated and did not want to spend the time engaging this one, so I told him off quickly and considered tossing the phone, but gently replaced it in its cradle instead.
Here is my heartfelt fiery curse for these dreadful little senior scammers: May you suffer much, live long in misery, get old, get piles, become incontinent, have no family to care for you, lose your teeth, lose your dentures, go blind, get shingles, break a hip, fall down a dry well-and just when you think you have hit bottom-lose all of your tiny savings or spare depends-to a horrid little scam artist! Oh yeah-lets throw in some locked in syndrome too. Yeah. I hope there is a hell for you after you pass from this world. I will volunteer to stab you in the ethereal version of the poop shoot with sharp objects, should I croak and end up there too.