Wonderful life of having siblings use your computer

So I go onto my computer/desktop to find some "PC ACCELERATOR PRO" running on my computer, and Checking my files for viruses. I immediately Close it. After I close it, I see some Generic Mobile farm game asking for a sign in. and another thing I see while I am slowly losing my temper because my brother was on the computer a couple minutes ago. Is that my Home desktop, is in a Fucking Chrome tab.
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Like what the fuck.

So I go through all my programs and uninstall a couple of programs, and I think It's okay now, my desktop isn't a tab anymore.
I asked my brother, and he says he was only playing minecraft, Which the Fucking net history says he was looking maps, and eventually a page called "Open software updater" and then "you have your one prize waiting (1)." and in the downloads there's an .exe called "Pinwheel-something something" so I'm calling bullshit. None of it even asked for an admin password(or my brother found out what it was, which I doubt because it's not written down, and no one else knows it).

I feel uneasy signing anything in right now on the computer. I'm on the school laptop right now. It's probably some bloat-ware and gone by now. I asked everyone in my family just to make sure, and none of them said they did(none of them have a reason to) I'm thinking of reinstalling windows just to make sure, but I just installed all my programming stuff(I recently formatted everything because of driver errors which got fixed). I'm really mad he didn't confess, I told him (with my mom supporting me) to not look for minecraft maps/mods or anything(because that's what was being searched) and he said okay, but I doubt he'll listen.
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DeoNaught
Another tidbit, I have my desktop to hide everything on the desktop so it's just the background and windows, and while I was emptying the trashcan to make sure it was gone, I see shortcuts for those fucking programs in the trashcan. So in the proccess of installing whatever, he made the shortcuts and folders visible, deleted the shortcuts, and then left the programs running :thinking:

@x65943 He's Thirteen : >
 
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Mollycule
Some families have rules that it's nobody's computer, and you must all share it.

Not my computer..

OUR computer (russian anthem)
 
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Captain_N
well how about giving your sibling restricted access. Basic user mode so they cant install applications. Your own account cant have a password?
 
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FAST6191
If you want to go further for internet cafes and such there are things that will flash an image (or run a VM and revert that*) for each new user.

*theoretically you could go a bit simpler and autoboot a VM, force the internal my documents to be on the main PC so they still have files if you do revert every time.
 
Harsky
I'd just use System Restore and choose an earlier date before he started messing with it. Not sure if that's good enough for today's malware.
 
DeoNaught
I'll look into basic user mode, I have a seperate account with admin privys(and one without them, which he was on), and you need a password to install stuff, but I guess it didn't want the password for the game(you can run portable .exe files without admin privys, so it might of been like that)

@FAST6191 You need a good amount of resources for it though don't you? my desktop has 5th/6th i3 and 6GB ram.
 
leon315
just make a guest account, which required Admin pass everytime he needs to install new program, simple isn't it??
 
U
Make yourself the administrator, and create a second account for them with less privileges, like a guest account. if its a shared family computer, google search information about less privileged accounts, have a talk with the parents about this and show them the stuff the sibling(s) did, as well as the potentially worse damage they COULD have done.

Unattended access for children on a PC is a disaster waiting to happen. Both for the computer, AND the children. However, your best course of action for something like this is what I mentioned above, not getting angry at the siblings, as they are small, naive, and dumb. Take the opportunity to train them on the dangers of the internet, and lock that thing down so it doesn't have the potential to happen again.

Godspeed, Deonaught!
 
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The Real Jdbye
Run Malwarebytes and a decent AV just to make sure (in other words not Windows Defender or AVG), then you're probably good to go.
 
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DeoNaught
Virtualize Windows isn't gonna run well

@linuxares Deleting it didn't take care of it?

@unvaluablespace I talked with my mom, and she agreed pretty much, I'm gonna look into guest accounts, the one he was on didn't have admin, but some how still installed
 
IncredulousP
You'd be surprised, if your computer supports virtualization engines then Windows might actually run really well. My old crappy Lenovo had a virtualization engine decent enough to virtualize Windows with only minor performance hit. Additionally, there's always the choice of dual booting.
 
Dust2dust
Is it your computer, or a family computer? If it's yours, lock it with a password and forbid your brother of touching it. It's your personal stuff. If it's a family computer, well then, your brother is also part of the family. Then it's the parent's responsibility to manage.
 
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LowEndC
@x65943

"kids shouldn't be allowed on the internet..."

right? have you seen the closed issues on godmode9? lol

someone wanted him to make a godmode9 cia because " itz 2 hawd to weboot evwee tiem in2 gadmod9!! "

like, i fell out the chair onto the floor laughing.
except i really had to throw myself on the floor, it's a lazyboy
rofl
 

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