My parents are not computer literate at all, and therefore I am their go-to tech support.  I honestly don't mind this.  They help me out with a lot of things they are good at and I am not.  The problem is that I keep having to reinstall antivirus and scrub viruses and such.  I really don't know how they manage to uninstall the antivirus (maybe some scareware is doing it?), but after the third time of doing this, when I was wondering if I hadn't completely removed everything, I discovered that Dad was almost certainly the one downloading this, during the times when he is home and Mom is at work.  I honestly don't care what he does, and with just about anyone else I would subtly point them to one of the safe free sites, but that would embarrass the hell out of my Dad.  I've thought of these options so far:

1) "Man Up" and just confront him.  I veto this because it would be too damaging to our relationship.

2) Somehow send him anonymous suggestions.  Wow, that seems creepy, though, even if he didn't simply delete it as spam.

3) Remove his admin privileges on his computers.  I'm not sure he would realize it, but it just seems presumptuous since it's their computer.  Maybe I could couch it as a way to avoid these viruses?

I'm sure someone else on Reddit has dealt with this in a graceful way.
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How do I tell my Dad to stop surfing dangerous
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My parents are not computer literate at all, and therefore I am their go-to tech support.  I honestly don't mind this.  They help me out with a lot of things they are good at and I am not.  The problem is that I keep having to reinstall antivirus and scrub viruses and such.  I really don't know how they manage to uninstall the antivirus (maybe some scareware is doing it?), but after the third time of doing this, when I was wondering if I hadn't completely removed everything, I discovered that Dad was almost certainly the one downloading this, during the times when he is home and Mom is at work.  I honestly don't care what he does, and with just about anyone else I would subtly point them to one of the safe free sites, but that would embarrass the hell out of my Dad.  I've thought of these options so far:

1) "Man Up" and just confront him.  I veto this because it would be too damaging to our relationship.

2) Somehow send him anonymous suggestions.  Wow, that seems creepy, though, even if he didn't simply delete it as spam.

3) Remove his admin privileges on his computers.  I'm not sure he would realize it, but it just seems presumptuous since it's their computer.  Maybe I could couch it as a way to avoid these viruses?

I'm sure someone else on Reddit has dealt with this in a graceful way.
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Dad seems to be downloading viruses and stuff even when
assistant