Here’s a youtube video from my computer screen demonstrating the problem<\/a>.<\/p>\nMy McAfee anti-virus and firewall protection is up to date.<\/p>\n
I have no reason to believe my computer was hacked. A friend emails: "If you looked at a page on a secure site and then later you use Google Desktop to search for something that was on that secure page, then Google Desktop I’m guessing might try to bring up that page but since you’re not logged in, you’d get a login screen to popup."<\/p>\n
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