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"Do you want to scan your computer for updating?" November 11, 2015 8:36 pm Robert
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Has this ever happened to you? You wake up in the morning and find your computer has rebooted, presumably due to one of Microsoft’s involuntary updates. After you log in, and before you’ve barely had a sip of morning coffee, a little popup window appears in the adwarenotification area, lower-right, of Windows (7)?

At irregular intervals since this morning, on average about every 45 seconds, but never predictably…

Stays up for about ten seconds, then fades away.

No indication of who wants to scan.

Malware? Adware? A virus? What will happen when I click anywhere on it? Is the “X” a target for suckers?

Is it the Microsoft Windows 10 Updater escalating to a new intensity of throat-cramming?

The Internet doesn’t know what it is.

I even uploaded this screen cap to Google Image search for pattern-matching, and Google doesn’t know about it.

So far, I appear to be the only person on this planet to whom this is happening.

Has this ever happened to you?

  • Only worry if it starts calling you Dave or says "you don't want to do that" by Tony 2015-11-12 13:15:42
    • I am updated to 10 and I have never seen anything like you describe by FrankC 2015-11-12 12:22:22
      • Who did you p--- off? ;-) by SDAI-Tech 2015-11-12 12:12:46
        • It happened to a guy in Russia, but he doesn't know either. by TB 2015-11-12 10:37:18
          • I found that one link by Robert 2015-11-12 12:21:21
          • Ummm... by Jody 2015-11-12 09:12:19
            • That might explain it! by Robert 2015-11-12 11:55:20
            • I haven't seen that particular dialog by mcfly 2015-11-11 22:03:53

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