The overheating point that was brought up is a very good possibility. A while back the cooling fan had started to make some noise, but i continued to use the computer as i needed it for my final papers due at the time. That eventually led to the hard drive crashing. Perhaps the heat damaged something partially back then and is only showing up now.

With regard to the symantic message: It appears as if it is actually a real norton message. There are no links to click on. This is exactly how the message looks:

Your computer is at risk in the following areas:

-Virus protection out of date


open your Norton product to resolve the issue

(checkmark box)To prevent duplicate security stats alerts, use my existing Norton product alerts and turn off redundant Windows Security Center alerts
(reccomended)


{{{{{{{{{{{{OK}}}}}}}(thats an ok box)


Thanks guys this is driving me nuts.
Ryan

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