Tim Attwood schrieb:
> Then Outlook automatically "upgraded"
> itself to OE, disabling several funcions that
> I didn't use, so I never bothered trying to
> re-install.
>
> Not long after that IE7 started closing
> without warning on some pages, so
> I switched to Firefox (version 2 maybe?).
>
> After that I noticed that the computer
> wouldn't boot into safe mode, but booted
> into normal mode fine...
> so I backed everthing up more often, and
> then the computer stopped running.

All of that does *not* sound like the natural way of these programs 
acting (not even when presuming a good deal of the usual "Windows rot"), 
so I'm inclined to presume some malware to have been at work.

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