DR&KIDS

Five years back we started having dinner seated together. Previously, we had dinner together, but it was in the living room with the TV on and more. However, hurricane Sandy prompted us to sit together at the kitchen table (It was the only room with lights powered by a portable generator). We have continued thus ever since.

The other night, it was a little silent at the dinner table. I guess everyone was absorbed in having their meal and moving on to evening prayers then bed. It turns out the silence was too much for our 6 year old to stomach.

“Next time, I want to be born into a talking family!” she exclaimed. Not sure what to make of it, I asked her what she wanted us to talk about. She went on to say, she wanted to be asked how her day was, and how was school. We complied and she joyfully shared her day adventures.

Do you talk at the dinner table? We took a hint from a 6 year old girl who is not afraid to speak her mind.

My kids stumbled upon the above website after mistyping the web address of their homework site.

They were very frightened especially because not only did the site suggest that our information had been compromised but it had a prerecorded audio message. The audio message repeatedly said “Microsoft has received a warning that your computer has been hacked, call the number on the screen to recover your banking information, credit…etc. data now.”

I happened to be home. I overheard to warning audio message and realized it did not add up. A closer look at the website, I noticed it is a ‘clone’ and not a genuine Microsoft website. I told the kids to close the site and the look on their faces ‘spoke a million words.’

To cut the story short, I closed the side, checked to see the antivirus was still active, restarted the laptop and gave it back to the kids to do their home. I explained to them, that the site was a fake and only trying to extort dollars from unsuspecting users.

It was nothing more than a fake website meant to rip users $$$. (That phone number…from another continent!?)