Recent content by ragnar-gd

As you are still within guarantee-timeframe, contact Dell-support. This is the safest bet, as if you screw up with whatever advice is given here, you have a real problem. Your Dell XPS 15 is an expensive machine, and you DESERVE support. ;-)

Please make a screenshot of your error-message.

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@marco: We need more info to give good advice: 1. Where did you get the support-number for "Quicken 2016 Support" from? 2. Did the "help" you, or did the just OFFER help (for that price)? 3. Did you already pay? 4. What indicates from YOUR point of view you have been hacked?

Facebook does not only share your data, but via its APIs allows their "customers" to have ads (or fake news) pop up at your desk VIA facebook, if your profile looks like what the "customer" likes.

@Phillip: But you DO perhaps have something like "noscript" active? Which *could* screen the miner from your antivirus, depending on how it is implemented on that site (or on an affiliate banner on that site...) @niruto: Firefox-Users have a plugin called "noscript", and i'm pretty sure such a...

Ok, what happened until now?

If you trust Toms, read this: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-antivirus,review-2588.html PCMag is a good read once in a while as well, so check here: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372364,00.asp Avast support is reading on TomsHardware forums "security", so you have a point of...

I checked at NVidia, and it says, it is fine as it is. TomsHardware says "Good VR" http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-gpus,review-33382.html

What does your manual say?

...after backup... or else...

Check how much private data is on that machine, and at least go for a cheap external HDD, or even an USB-Stick...

Check the exact name of your TV, and then use google on that with "<name>" and "manual".

To check if your windows-build is up to date, open a commandline, and type "winver". The "latest" is 16299.334, but 16299.309 is still possible and ok. Not doing a backup is calling for trouble. Imagine it IS malware...

Use Process Explorer, and find out more. For this, you have to use edge, it won't work with FF (can't say for IE11 or Chrome, just use Edge): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer You can use it "live".