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Thanks for being patient with my paranoia, and thanks for all the hard work. It is reassuring to know there’s nothing on my system that shouldn’t be there.
But…
You have seen how limited my knowledge of computers is; is it possible that i may have some setting or completely legitimate software set up in such a way as to give someone remote access to my machine? For example, i have e-mail accounts with Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and Virgin Media, i access all of these via my web browser (firefox on my laptop and whatever my HTC Wildfire S phone uses with Android). I think i remember hearing that it was possible to hack this sort of e-mail and that there was a particular problem with Yahoo, possibly involving Flickr too. Is this something i can check up on? I suppose i should Google it and see what i can find out. If you could point me toward any useful information or websites that would be a great help.
Once again, thanks for your help!