Thanks all. Goes to show that even with two separate anit-virus programs that are proported to be up to date, you can still get infected.
I'm sorry Martha, but you must be mistaken. In an earlier thread on this subject CFB assured us that:
One last time.
I have three machines. Software installed by the manufacturer. I did nothing. They dont get viruses.
I have three PC's that came from the maker with software installed. Been in service for years. No viruses. No work. No expense. Bupkus. Nada. Nothing special done. No expertise required.
I've spent zero extra time and money as well. Virus protection is provided for free by most system manufacturers and ISP's. Its already on the machine. It updates itself. It only interrupts me when something bad happens, which for the last 2-3 years has been never.
So really Martha, nothing happened, your machine is fine according to CFB. And you don't need to do anything (so why does CFB ask if you installed Windows Defender?) - it's all taken care of by the manufacturer. And call off your experts, after all, 'no expertise is required'.
Now, onto something helpful: Absolutely take the advice from others to do a full back-up of your machine from time-to-time. For extra safety, rotate those backups, so if you discover later that something was already hosed, you can go one further generation back. It's very simple, and large capacity external drives are cheap these days. Buy two.
Any machine can get hit by a hardware failure - you need a backup. It makes computer life so much less stressful. It is also a good idea to completely wipe your hard drive once in a while (every 18 months?), run a few tests, and then copy the image back. That can detect/prevent developing problems from bad blocks, which will get mapped out in the process.
Hope you get things straightened out OK - ERD50
PS: my 'cup of...' hasn't fully kicked in yet - sure, Apple computers are not bullet-proof to virus problems, but since all of CFB's dire warnings, all us Mac users have enjoyed
another four months of zero virus damage. On top of all the previous years of zero virus damage. As I said then, that could change tomorrow..... but it hasn't. (queue the strawmen...
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