[cybmole]

there's a nasty bit of malware called "backup my PC" or "MyPC backup" that almost sneaked onto mine. it comes inside of open candy installers for various shareware. & its has fake "rave review " sites probably commission based.

( moral: never download anything from download.com unless you are truly desperate).

That's the sort of program that pops up to say that your PC is about to die on you - then lures you into a subscription based service that you'll have great fun??? extricating yourself from

google mypcbackup malware for more info

I have malwarebytes pro though & not a lot gets past that, even if I'm not paying proper attention ! Unfortunatly a couple of freeware utilities that I quite like ( freefilesync & auslogics defrag) are in bed with open candy & thus do their very best to sneak this crap into updates via confusing tick boxes

if you are worried about your HD, run the built in microsoft tests & diagnostics from within Disc Cleanup or go My Computer, right lick on a drive, select properties, then tools. then clcik on error checking