Helen Carter

Thanks James, that’s the key point really: the account on X was the target, not Windows. For most people the practical risk is being lured into a fake sign-in or scam token page. If anyone did interact with it, changing a reused password and turning on two-step verification is se

That sort of brief freeze is often a service or driver hiccup rather than the laptop “going bad”. If it only happens with email and invoices open, I’d first check whether it’s happening in one app or when something is syncing in the background. A quick look at Services and any re