Why not? I wouldn’t trust them as far as I can spit. This is one reason I would never have a housekeeper. I don’t want anyone going through my house, turning on my computer, etc. I also enjoy the results of act of cleaning. When my husband suggested that we can afford a maid and why don’t I give up all those chores, I went postal. Do you realize what you expose yourself to when you allow that kind of access? nostr:note10kz3act29msadmv4u4ttlnh0nsv9pju5f3qrmxln2jp7x0j6kf0q84t0au
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Google: Evil Maid Attack
Also fyi, your computer HD should be encrypted if it isn’t already
Is that complicated?
Not really.
Windows has BitLocker.
To encrypt? Easy when first installing. Can get sticky if you’ve been using your drive already. For an existing system it is better to just encrypt a secure folder for your sensitive files or easiest of all just encrypt the individual files themselves.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/#email-clients
I’m a huge fan of Picocrypt
One day we will take you to lunch/dinner. You have been invaluable. So is Webroot any good? Or is it made to sell, as Daddy would day?
I really don’t know anything about them. I’ve never been overly impressed with any anti-virus products and there are plenty of FOSS solutions.
Unless you have things going on that I don’t know about using cryptomator or Picocrypt for anything that has banking or personal information and then storing backups for everything.
Having a worst case of a fresh install with anything critical backed up and anything sensitive encrypted is not the end of the world.