Recent content by gb3kudzu

Wow, mdd1963! Got FreeFixer and first scan scares me to death. I took note of their warning to be sure I want to delete something. Any help for a codger newbie on what to look for, to avoid killing one or more things I want or need?

Thanks for that. Will plug in freefixer later. Those sounds were not coming whilel I had a link open. I keep my Google-Chrome browser open, with its 3 regular occupants available, generally keep my Yahoo mail Inbox exposed so don't believe it could have come from that. Updating another thing...

Did that, found only thing I'd installed last 6 months had gone active for me about the same time this began. Tried twice to Uninstall -- once, using AVG Shredder -- both times got message from the provider, sorry to see me go, hope I'd be back ... BUT: also got notification Delete, then...

Thanks, COL Geek. Already scanned (both AVG and MWBytes); both showed no intruders. Cleared browser cache recently but these phantom voices have appeared since then; will do it again. How did your FiL know he had that remote access app? As I mentioned, I'm running AVG VPN; installed it after...

Recently got same "Fake Microsoft Pop Up" mentioned in another place, but figured it was bogus since I'm using AVG (paid version) and their VPN. Subsequent scan showed no unwanted visitors. But I'm occasionally having another worrisome thing: every 3-4 days a brief passage of what sounds like...