I was just tinkering around online (AR15, eBay, downloading some files) and just happened to glance down at the icons on the lower right hand side of my toolbar. I noticed that Norton Anti Virus and Pest Patrol icons are missing. I always have these programs on, and they turn on automatically when I boot up.
WTF I think to myself (I almost always leave the computer on)...so I manually start up Norton and then discover that Auto Protect and Email Scanning has been turned off! I try to turn them both back on and the program will not let me do it. I can do everything else (view logs, run full system scan, etc) but not turn Auto Protect or Email scan back on.
Pest Patrol would turn back on, and operate with no apparent problems.
I rebooted, and now everything works fine. Did a full system scan with both....nothing found.
I am a little worried because I had just finished an eBay purcahse and PayPal transaction. I typed in a few important passwords.
OS is XP. Any ideas what may have caused this?