These things when they happen can take hours or days. The other was the "about blank" homepage (and worse) hack which I found a solution online fortunately, followed instrux, done. The fix was manual instructions printed to follow - nasty virus - it even killed Norton. Since mid 90's I only had 2 serious attacks one fixed with Norton AVirus - which I will not use anymore due to hoggy performance issues. I find it all exciting but I used to work at it. I know Firefox just updated to version 41 - seamless, unnoticeable = so far, heh heh. The only other warning I see are on search engines, where some search result on the list is marked with a warning. Altho I will have to log on Here at the cafe, and maybe a couple of "remember me" locations. If it doesn't boot, I have a problem - but dumping temps should not cause troubles. It's usually loaded with wannabe important Junk. It basically finds "dead end registry strings" that are no longer valid, usually due to uninstalls or deletes. I use basic virus program, and clean out old temp files and history once in a while, and then run a registry scanner called RegVac. I never used it but the name rings a bell. Isn't Bing an old search engine that's been around for years. JUST BEWARE! DON'T USE AVS Audio Converter! Maybe I'll call that, but I don't want to spend this kind of time again, while Microsoft pokes around and might make the problem worse again. But Microsoft sent the number for supervisor. I gave up on Microsoft techs because they at least made my internet usable and stable again. But there are still problems - every time I open a new Tab for the internet, whether from Firefox or Internet Explorer, there's a problem but I can easily get around that problem and use the tab now. Now, I can at least get my home page again. (Much less, however, than I was paying annually/total to my computer scientist friend, every time I had a problem that I couldn't fix myself.) Microsoft technicians and I spend two hours PER DAY for THREE DAYS trying to fix this problem. Fortunately, I subscribe to Microsoft Phone Support, which costs over $500 per year. The member said he uses it, but when I installed this program, it put a spam search engine and home page called Bing. AVS Audio Converter REALLY, REALLY MESSED UP MY COMPUTER! I don't know if was a virus, a worm, or what! A member of Mandolin Cafe forums recommended this program on a thread I started several days ago.
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