Hi there everybody. Hoping to get some help here. I used to be incredibly computer savvy, but that has been well surpassed by technology at this point - SO - I apologize ahead of time. I had to mess with my firewall settings yesterday in order to download software to open some .MBOX files for email evidence against a former employer and it very well could be paranoia, but my laptop has been been increasingly slow which prompted me to start poking around. Noticed some suspect files/folders, etc along with being prompted to access things as "admin", which I can't remember ever having to do on my own computer.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/776547/spyware-malware-or-paranoia/

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