Recent content by osteolass

Thanks for the explanation. Things seem to be operating normally but I'm reserving judgement and keeping a close eye!

I'm running McAfee. It hasn't detected anything malicious. Nor has malwarebytes, spybot or superantispyware. HP says the "flashing" is a way to update and fix the BIOS. BUT it seems to be something that you have to ask the machine to perform rather than something that just normally happens...

Greetings y'all. I just got a Windows 8 HP laptop and a strange thing happened. I was catching up on my shows on Hulu when a box popped up on my screen that said something like "Flashing Process. Keyboard and Trackpad will no [sic] respond. Process will be complete in 100 seconds." The show...