Hi! Ed,

On 11/17/2017 07:07 AM, Ed Vance -> Paul Quinn wrote:

 EV> At times I've panicked and reach back where the A.C. Connector is plugged
 EV> in and Unplugged it, to get ITS attention.

 EV> Try that sometimes, it works for Me!

I did once, about two years ago.  On my wife's old Linux PC I got spooked
one morning, probably around 0900 (still before my first coffee), when I
started up Fire Fox.  While FF was starting I noticed on a desktop
application called Conky that an _outbound_ IP connect was being attempted
to what looked like a hacker/smacker/hip-hop gee-whiz dangerous-sounding
website!

Wham!  I hit the big red power switch!  (Not really big or red but you know
what I mean.)  I was in a full on panic.  That was the first time the PC
had been powered down in nearly four years.

When I sheepishly re-started the PC later, Linux was smiling at me.  (I
could tell it was having fun at my uneasiness.)  No harm had been done. 
The website turned out to be linked to a FF add-on that I had installed a
couple of nights previously.  I just hadn't taken note of the support
website on the first access.  Oops.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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