My desktop all in one keeps randomly shutting off

[ReneeB22]

my HP all in one desk top keeps randomly shutting off

[itsmyname]

@ReneeB22 -- how warm/hot is the air being pushed-out through the computer's exhaust-port by the fan inside the computer?  Do you feel a "breeze" caused by that internal fan, or has the fan stopped working?

If you need exact temperatures of the components inside your computer, download/install/run the free version of the SPECCY software.  It will show the temperature of the motherboard, and the temperature of the processor.  Anything over 60 Celsius is "bad news".

[User031322]

Freeware means spyware. Never install free programs. They need to make money, and the way freeware always makes money are by selling your data by spying on what you do, or installing cryptominers that will use your CPU. Never intall freeware if it is not real freedomware like the ones developed by the linux community.

[itsmyname]

@User031322 -- Freeware means spyware

I strongly disagree with your generalization.

For the case of the SPECCY software, you can use the free version, or you can pay to get the "professional" version. I really doubt that the company that developed SPECCY included spyware.

Similarly, I use the free version of "Adobe Reader" and "iTunes" and the cross-platform "Audacity" software.

I strongly doubt that any of these offerings include "spyware".

I also doubt that the free, web-based, version of Microsoft Office contains "spyware".

Purchase a commercial "software firewall" package, such as Norton Internet Security.

Then, run SPECCY, and see if that firewall informs you that the software is "calling home" to invade your privacy.  

[User031322]

Adobe does a lot of spying, and sending tons of data to Adobe servers when you use their programs. They even spy when you go to their websites. They use scripts from third parties that record your websession, what you type and how your mouse is moving around their websites. So they can later on replay your session. It is called cobrowsing and is legal. Use Libre Office instead.

Itunes is made by Apple. Apple has the strongest privacy policy in the world. So iTunes is safe. For example if you use a IPhone, the kind of AI that is used on an IPhone to index your Photos in the way that you can type ”food” and see all videos and photos that has food in them or a beach, chair, a friends name or whatever, that is done on the device. An android device does that kind of AI tasks in the cloud. Apple is safe.

Audacity is safe, that is the kind of freedomware with such high level of privacy that they are also to be find in Tails and Whonix distributions. It is a safe program.

Microsoft websites are using the same scripts as Adobe on their websites from third partiets. So using the web version of office will send every keystrokes to third partiets for anslysis. Use freedomware Libre office instead. It can do the same as the full version of Microsoft Office, but it is free and respects your privacy. The desktop version of MS Office does a lot of spying. It is even sending and receiving data over the network before you have opened it for the first time.

MS Office is the first thing I uninstall when having a new computer. Then all the HP programs that makes the computer slow and crash, when you use other heavy programs like neural network Machine learned AI for frame rate interpolation, or higher the HD to 4K, or making a deep fakes.

[User031322]

I do not need a software ”firewall package”, powershell and Microsoft firewall is all I need.

Norton and many other ”antivirus” programs is implemented into Microsoft Maware protection engine. So it is in fact windows firewall that is being in use, but you are using Nortons GUI to controll windows firewall. 😉 

More over, when an antivirus program finds a suspicious file and sends a report to the company behind the antivirus, the same report goes to Microsoft SpyNet. That is why Microsoft Defender finds the same amount of malwares as the best antivirus programs. Even more, the latest 2 years, Microsoft has find 100 % all widespread virus an malwares every months and 100 % of all zero days the most of the months. They test with around 280 zero days every months according to https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

According to https://www.av-comparatives.org/ Microsoft defender is always in the top 5 every months. The other 5 is  changing from months to months, meaning that if you measure longer periods of over a year, then Microsoft defender is the best choise. Bitdefender is always at the top 3 thought. But it is not much better than Microsoft defender. It is a higher dection rate of 0,02 percentage points. So if you are not constantly webbrowsing to very strange websites then there is no need of an antivirus. Many of the malware that windows does not find can be prevented by using a good free adblocker. 

Microsoft Defenders offline detection is not good though, so make sure you stay online so smartscreen is always doing what it wants.

But Antivirus is good for privacy. They are always knowing What webpages you go to.