[Plonking]

Hey all,

I just want to check this out, as I'm pretty certain about it.

Earlier on, I was merrily writing a fascinating essay for university, and, suddenly, about a million windows opened up! I tired to close some of them, but quickly decided my pc was under attack.

I had to restart it the slow way (i.e. using windows to properly restart) rather than the quick way (hitting the reset button) because I needed to save my work! Sure enough, it asked me if I wanted to save before it re-started.

Since that time, I have changed all of my passwords on this computer, as well as my internet passwords (from one of my other pcs). I have also updated lots of new patches for windows.

Is there anything else I should do? The mass of open windows were open for about thirty seconds, so how much damage could they have done? Its realy annoying, as I thought I had two firewalls (a router AND a software firewall).. so is there anything else I can do to stop this from happening in the future?

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