I am computer stupid, lol. My computer knowledge ended in the 90s. All I want to know is how this happened and how I can fix it. Any help would be appreciated and I won't be offended if you need to "dumb it down" for me to understand. ![]()
I am very perplexed as to what is going on with my computer. I'd like to give just a little background information before I dive into my situation. My 12 year old son and I share a home desktop computer. I work from home and am also a full time student. Because I like to monitor the content of my son's Internet use I use a key logger to keeps tabs to make sure he is not doing anything he shouldn't be. Now, yesterday while my son was at school I was playing videos on YouTube while doing some of my school work, after about 30 or so the computer shut itself off (which it does from time to time) so I turned back on, clicked open Google Chrome and started to type in youtube, when Google Chrome quit responding and my computer shut off again. When I turned it back on I decided that probably needed to run ccleaner to clear history, cookies and the registry. Computer worked fine afterwards and I continued to listen to music on YouTube and chat on facebook in anouther tab for about an hour. Later that evening my son used the computer so I checked the key logger later just to be safe when I noticed something really weird. When I had been on the computer earlier in the day and chrome had frozen I could see where I had typed you (for youtube) into the search box, however, one minute later the key logger shows a new tab opening the website youporn and it being visited for 7 secs yet not responding, then it shows up again during the same time (as everything in the key logger is timestamped) as being viewed for one minute. Next, it shows that an actual video was accessed, and my McAfee running at the same time! It says that this video was open on a tab of my computer for an hour and 22 mins!! First, my computer shut down at the start of this youporn thing, second, I ran ccleaner as soon as I turned the computer back on. Third, when I got back on chrome for youtube and facebook I didn't see any other tabs open. Forth, I wasn't even on the computer for an hour and 22 mins after I rebooted. How in the world is this possible? I have no pop ups, ads, and the only issue I've had is my computer shutting down randomly, but this is the first time I've ever seen anything like this. My McAfee is only the free version but I've been told that that was good enough for my purposes. I've tried to Google the issue and ask several people and they all say I must have intentionally went to the site, but I didn't! Do I have a virus? Malware? I have no idea about these things but think it's very strange. Also, in case anyone is wondering I've had the key logger on there for over a year and this has never happened before so I don't believe it's coming from there. Like I said it has never happened before and it hasn't happened since but I'd like to know what is going on. Please advise!

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