Computer matters

Very sorry to hear that Harrier. Have you got your information off, how old is the machine and have you got restore/recovery disks?

Thanks to everyone for comments and help. I think I have got it sorted now.... the computer, not the stroke!!

Hi folks. With Russia likely to be pushing cyber attacks I thought I'd just mention that my Firefox browser with all cookies turned off just set off my virus protection alarm. Normally it lets nothing in. If not a problem from Firefox itself, it might have come in from an advert on probably the Daily Mail. Make sure that your virus protection is up to date, you've backed up your machine and nothing like a list passwords are kept on your machine. Update - it turned out to be a false positive but the advice still applies.

Beware of this - “NewProfilePic”. I raise the matter here as I’ve seen it being used on a Facebook page, A Tribute to Nigel Boocock, before I came across the newspaper article. The image looked impressive, and followers seemed very keen to pursue the site via an app, a link to which was offered.