Hmm, I just booted up my laptop and I didn’t get the serious error message warning. Wierd. Last time I had it on, I spent all last night running a virus scan which uncovered two viruses and then I downloaded and installed Spybot: Search and Destroy which found tons of spyware on my system. I removed it all other than the Alexa stuff.
I don’t believe that all that stuff was actually spyware and viruses, I think these things are way over protective and as such create a lot of paranoia among novice users. After all, stuff like Alexa is on my system because I want it there.
Still I can see that one thing sending data out such as Alexa but that I didn’t actually need could be causing the error so while I still don’t believe I need a spyware checker most of the time, it did come in handy this time.
Presuming the problem is gone, I don’t like to proclaim that it has worked as I’m scared when I restart it will just come straight back again. But I’ll deal with that when it happens.
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