William writes:
A few hours before the failure, I received and looked at an e-mail
that I'm
almost certain was at least a spoof, and possibly malicious. I know it
contained html and links. I did *** not ***
click any of the links. I looked at it, and deleted it. It was viewed in
Thunderbird only. The message's "From" ended with "yahoo.com".
My
question: It is highly improbable that that message had anything to do with
the boot failure. Am I correct?
You are correct.
Also a few hours before the failure, I did some web browsing using
Firefox
with NoScript and uBlock Origin. As best as I recall, the "riskiest" sites
that I visited were
finance.yahoo.com (and a few of its sub-pages, I clicked
no ads, no ad links) and
indeed.com (possibly and a posting or two). My
question: It is highly improbable that my web browsing had anything to do
with the boot failure. Am I correct?
You are correct, again.