Protecting Your Parents From Tech Support Scams
For adult children: how to talk to a parent about scams, set up their PC, and help if something already happened.
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How to protect your parents from remote-support scamsA practical setup for when you’re not in the room and they’re the one on the phone.The 20-minute holiday checklist to protect a parent's computer from scamsA 20-minute checklist for a holiday visit: remove unused remote apps, agree on one rule about connections, and keep the bank's real number by the PC.How to protect your elderly parent's computer from scammers, even when you live far awayScams on a parent's PC usually start with a call or pop-up and end with remote access. What to set up, what to agree on, and how to help from far away.The full Thanksgiving setup guide: protect an elderly parent's Windows 11 PC from remote-access scamsUse the Thanksgiving visit to close the doors scam callers use: unused remote apps, an admin account, saved passwords, bank alerts and one family rule.Tech gifts for elderly parents who get scam calls: a 2026 holiday guideGifts that cut scam calls and make the computer harder to take over, from a free carrier setting to a landline call blocker and an afternoon of setup help.