- Nov 10, 2019
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Had something unusual to me this morning when I woke up my Dell desktop/mini-tower system. When I logged in, it did not come up to my standard desktop. It came up under Microsoft Edge, on a Bing search engine page, which I quickly closed, and got out of Edge back to my desktop. I do not knowingly use Edge as a rule. I use Firefox as my browser and DuckDuckGo as my automatic preferred search engine, coming up to a DDG blank search page when logging into Firefox. I have a habit when getting off the internet when finished, of closing all tabs, going to my opening DDG search page, clicking to close Firefox, and the running a quick Ccleaner wipe, closing Ccleaner and letting the system go to sleep, usually not tuning it off.
This evening, got around to looking at event viewer events to see if I could understand how the morning's surprise wake up occurred. Saw the usual laundry list of security successful security audits during the day, including my logon around 8:43AM. i also saw a tremendous amount logons, special logon, special privileges extended, Windows activations, user account privileges changes. I might have been asleep, but I don't think this thing got any damn sleep, even Norton got in on the act.
Is this due to some automatic update setting I clicked or failed to un-click? Only had this thing 3 weeks, but do not remember a notice of "You have new updates" or "your computer has been updated" except when installing some software. I can understand it doing things while updating, depending on what is updating but I never let computers update on their own before except government or corporate computer for the IT geeks to tinker with at night. Whatever it was doing generated 129 megabytes of files from Edge and Internet Explorer as well a Explorer on the the system, some with my user logon identity. I can brows or read on the board for several hours and not generate more the 12 to16 meg of temp files. New to me because I haven't sat in a computer class since late 90s or very early 2000s.
So what? Blow it off as the way things work and has to be for it to keep working or does this indicate a computer security issue?
This evening, got around to looking at event viewer events to see if I could understand how the morning's surprise wake up occurred. Saw the usual laundry list of security successful security audits during the day, including my logon around 8:43AM. i also saw a tremendous amount logons, special logon, special privileges extended, Windows activations, user account privileges changes. I might have been asleep, but I don't think this thing got any damn sleep, even Norton got in on the act.
Is this due to some automatic update setting I clicked or failed to un-click? Only had this thing 3 weeks, but do not remember a notice of "You have new updates" or "your computer has been updated" except when installing some software. I can understand it doing things while updating, depending on what is updating but I never let computers update on their own before except government or corporate computer for the IT geeks to tinker with at night. Whatever it was doing generated 129 megabytes of files from Edge and Internet Explorer as well a Explorer on the the system, some with my user logon identity. I can brows or read on the board for several hours and not generate more the 12 to16 meg of temp files. New to me because I haven't sat in a computer class since late 90s or very early 2000s.
So what? Blow it off as the way things work and has to be for it to keep working or does this indicate a computer security issue?