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Originally Posted by BookCat
Anyway, thanks for the help, I'm sure my computer-literate friend will sort this out for me.
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I wish your friend better luck than I had last year. Back then our home computer had a malware issue. I cleaned everything off that showed itself. Locally things seemed fine, I could find no traces of any malicious programs left and our computer functioned as it always had. All programs reported back zero existing problems.
But our local internet service provider (ISP) reported to us that our machine was acting as part of a botnet and if we didn't fix it we would be cutoff. Even with that knowledge and many more tools I could find no hint of any wrong doing. After the second warning from the ISP I wiped our machine and started fresh. No more warnings came from our ISP.
I have been working in the Information Technology field for 30 years and the root source of the problem eluded me. I really should take a coworker's advice and give my wife a separate login to our computer without administrator privileges. But truthfully I can just as easily click the wrong item too. Now when I build my machine I create an image so I don't have to build the machine from scratch the next time.