A freind of mine, who I know through a local group I belong to, had a proble with his laptop the other day and asked for my advice. He had downloaded some documents from what the considered to be a reliable source in the education sector. Somewhow he ended up with an image in the centre of his desktop that was not clickable, coud not be moved, deleted or edited. He asked what to do.
I suspect, though cannot be positive that somewhere in amongst the files he downloaed was an file ending in .exe This is an exucutable file. I.E. a programme.
By the description I guesed that it had placed an image in STARTUP and everytime mt freind opened his laptop up popeed the image.
I suggested he opend STARTUP and deleted anything in that folder that should not be there.
Problem was solved. However I must now get him to check that whatever did that to STARTUP is no longer there. Also, remember, even though you might have deleted it, it is still in the Recycle Bin and needs to removed from there too.
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