Re:There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
by fencepost on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:31PM
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Check printer specs first and select something with built in PCL or (better) Postscript support. With native Postscript you may even be able to just get a PPD file as the "driver."
Won't help as much if you want color though, particularly inkjet color.
And for your parents, see if they're putting the current year on searches - on Bing and DDG that ends (or did end recently) in much worse results because the original sites often don't include dates but malicious ones have all the same keywords plus the year. In my recent experience adding the year meant > 90% malware results on the first page.
Google was much better about this a month or two back.
Yes. I go out of my way to run a clean crap free Windows PC. Even going as far as either buying from the business line of laptops or buying from the Microsoft store. But the minute I install a printer driver....
It's even worse for people like my parents, they search online for printer driver and usually end up downloading crapware from a third party site unaffiliated with the printer manufacture.