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The laptop this got onto just sits there like a brick, TOTALLY unused unless for some reason it is started up to play music, which even at that is unusual. It is not a daily thing. However, yesterday I turned it on and forgot to turn it off. It went into "sleep mode" for about five hours. I then started it up and shut it off. Today I started it and went into the music directories, and voila! that new star of david character was mixed into the titles of any song that had latin characters, in place of the latin characters. That computer NEVER HAD THAT CHARACTER BEFORE SHOW UP IN ANYTHING EVER. Additionally, the contents of the music folders were re-arranged, with large song playlists that had been given their own folders dis-assembled completely and dumped into one large folder. DID MICROSOFT TAKE THOSE FILES, MOVE THEM INTO ONE DRIVE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, AND SCREW UP THEIR ARRANGEMENT? POSSIBLY!
RED ALERT: THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD POSSIBLY HAVE HAPPENED TO THIS SYSTEM, WHICH NEVER GOES ONLINE, HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE OR AFTER BEING PERMANENTLY TAKEN OFF THE WEB SO IT IS NOT MALWARE OR A VIRUS, THE ONLY WAY A NEW CHARACTER SET COULD HAVE BEEN LOADED AND FOLDERS SCREWED UP IS IF IT WAS DONE THROUGH A LOCAL WIFI I NEVER HAD ACCESS TO.
This happened when:
1. There is no internet for this computer.
2. Updates are disabled anyway.
3. Windows installer is disabled as well, so nothing can install, and it has been that way since I bought that computer 3 years ago.
4. The computer has not been used much for the past year, (used approximately once a week) which is enough to know it worked fine.
5. Absolutely nothing was installed by me or anyone else, nothing was re-configured, and no memory cards or flash drives had been plugged into it.
6. Absolutely NO ONE used that computer, there were no guests or children that had access to it.
When this happened:
1. The character set was changed to an English character set on a Latin computer, because no doubt Windows 10 discovered the computer was used entirely in English with Firefox and other applications installed in English despite being purchased in Latin America. When this was done, anything that was a specifically Latin character now has a star of david in it's place when before it all displayed the way it should.
2. The music folders got messed up with songs not appearing where they should be in folders. Playlists were destroyed. All songs were still on the computer, but they were not in the correct places. This can't happen unless someone or something does it, and WHAT COULD HAVE if the computer is just an offline brick that has worked perfect as an offline brick for a year?
3. The computer looked perfectly normal, as if it had Windows 7 installed on it, as usual. The computer ran the same as usual. It did not get clunky or messed up like it would if Malware took it over, or if it had a virus. But the character set is now different, THIS COMPUTER NEVER HAD AN OPERATING SYSTEM BASED ENGLISH CHARACTER SET ON IT EVER, HOW DID ONE GET ONTO IT?
Windows 7 starter never had the option to change languages or character sets out of box AT ALL, how did it suddenly get that ability out of nowhere?
YOU GUESS.
It sure looks to me like a Windows 10 infected machine will search its WIFI environment for any other totally unsuspecting Microsoft machine and install itself, even if there is no allowed connection in that environment. When it does this, it keeps it all a secret but NOT WITH ME, MICROSOFT, IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS YOU CAN'T HAVE A SYSTEM THAT SCREWS UP AND MAKES IT OBVIOUS!
Time to brick that laptop, in concrete.