Not sure what just happened here....

Hi all!

I don't know where else to post this....no idea if something somehow got onto my computer and caused this....

A few minutes ago I was just closing the windows I had open so I could turn my computer off, when it suddenly rebooted on its own. When it finished starting up I began to receive block notifications from Zone Alarm for everything...things I shouldn't be seeing them for. I opened up ZA and it seems to have been reset! All the programs I had permissions set for are gone and it's like I've just installed ZA for the first time.

Then....when I opened up Firefox, it seemed almost like it had been reset too. All the toolbars were showing and I usually only have two visible.

I have ZA, Avast, and SuperAntiSpyware running, and I also scan with S&D and AdAware regularly. I hadn't been doing anything on the internet other than being on the forums here.

Any idea what might have happened? :confused

 

Hi Chaslang,

As I mentioned, I have SuperAntiSpyware, Avast, and ZA running. I scanned with SAS, Avast and S&D, and have come up clean so far. Last night when I started my computer up it rebooted just before everything loaded. I have it set now so it will show me the error instead of automatically rebooting.

I'm going to try running a few more scans to see if I can find anything. It's just how ZA and Firefox were reset that have me suspicious. Strange.

Thanks for your input - I'll let you know if I find anything as far as malware.