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I wasn't familiar with this brand, but nothing else was available and my wife wanted her wifi. I know it was very stupid of me to let someone into my computer. I knew better and did it anyway. Do you know if it would have been possible for him to get into/infect any other devices on my network?

I bought a new Netgear router this morning and had problems with their Nighthawk phone app. A popup said I had an error and had a number to call. I called and a guy said I had a problem with the network. I thought this was legit Netgear tech support,which is no excuse, but when he asked me if...

Thanks for the reply. I'm ok with the all Users now. I still don't understand why a disk I had just burned with only one thing on it would ask to install something else, but macht nichts.

I thought I was hacked, but I ran all the programs at Major Geek's Malware help forum and he says no. Is it normal for all the programs I have installed, to be in C:/urers/all users? I also have another Windows 8.1 Pro computer on my network that I used Diskpart to "Clean" and then found 3...

OK Brink, thank you for the answers, I appreciate the help. Nice desktop.

That's real cute of MS to call an install a update.

I have the Edge update and I don't have Edge. I turned off the MS Explorer (uninstalled/deactivated) and searched for updates and it's still there. It says it's important so I wanted to check if it's ok to hide and ignore it. Thanks for your help.

I haven't installed and there is not a VPN installed, but in my Windows firewall it shows passthrough for CheckPoint.VPN and f5.vpn.client. Is there some legit reason for them to be there?

I uninstalled Spybot in my wife's Win 8.1 computer. It seems to have reinstalled itself once. I uninstalled it again and ran CCleaner. Something else popped up, but she closed it and told me later. I typed Spybot into Windows search and hit enter and a file came up that I don't have in my 8.1...

Update: I figured it out. It depends on if you drag and drop into the Music folder or if you use Manage?

Can anyone tell me why some albums in my Music folder are like the top one and others show up as just a folder?

I did have nst-26-9267.86_ in my downloads and it wasn't showing the .iso. I think when I downloaded it i may have double clicked on it, thinking it was a program install. I don't remember anything asking to mount it though. Thank you so much for the help.

That did the trick. The G DVD rom is gone. Is the only way this could have gotten mounted is if there had been a disk in the drive at some time?

Yes, there is no disk in the CD/DVD drive. My DVD drive has always been E: which is there plus this G: DVD drive.

I was looking in Disk Management and It is showing a G: and it is showing it as CD-ROM 1, DVD, 3.23GB. It says it is nst-26-9267.86_. I don't know where it came from or how it got there. Should I format the G: drive?