My wife "inadvertently" did something to cause changes.
When I start to enter something in the search area I get previous sites I visited. When I start to enter a password to log in somewhere my password shows up just as I start typing.
I don't know what she did but I don't want those things showing up when I do something like that.
Accidentally your wife has damaged your software and that may include any security software and anti-key-logging precautions,
and when your passwords are presented on screen before you complete typing them they may also be sent with a screen dump on the Internet to whatever is out there,
or even get pasted on your Wall when you next visit Facebook ! !
Worse possibilities are
Malware invaded your system somehow to log your passwords and report back to criminals for financial or identity theft ;
The wife was getting evidence against you ;
and either way something went wrong with the stealth mode that normally might conceal such actions from the victim.
LOL you guys took this in the way extreme direction first
Check to make sure auto-complete was not turned on in the browser.
And I have no idea why corona is thinking of california nor what on Terra it has to do with the subject at hand
Wellll, yeah, a bit over the top, eh? It was early. Or maybe late. Not enough coffee, plus I've never used autocomplete. I wasn't sure about calif. either, but was afraid to ask.
When I start to enter something in the search area I get previous sites I visited. When I start to enter a password to log in somewhere my password shows up just as I start typing.
This is one reason why I never share my computer with someone else and always encrypted my wifi with WPA because someone could try to gain access to your private stuff i.e. facebook account.
It's possible your wife had an accident with the browser settings or malware may have enabled this to steal your login details.
As a precaution you should run an AV scan of your machine, disable auto complete and change your passwords.
When my computer does anything different I go to Red Alert and identify why.
I trust my Comodo Internet Security,
but I have Macrium partition image backups to restore normality.
In 4 months with a new Windows 7 installation I have suffered two devastating wipe-outs by official Microsoft patches.
Each time Macrium brought me back.
I have never had a virus since Windows 95,
but I am still always on guard and when a Google link to a known good site gave me a XP Virus scan scamware showing trojans etc I instantly rebooted rather than click anything with the mouse.
If I was in your situation I would be very concerned and would :-
seriously investigate the possibility of malware/rootkits;
worry about whether it is malware/rootkit that is hidden too well for me to see;
decide whether to change banking account details etc.;
and restore the system to a previous state so that hopefully malware will not be active.
I made a mistake on my original post about typing in a password.
When I go to hotmail in MSN.com it asks for e-mail address & password.
I start to type my e-mail address and the entire e-mail address comes up. That had never happened before. When I start to type in my password nothing shows up . . . I just continue to type my password.
In addition as I stated originally . . . when I start to search for a website and start typing most of my previous web searches appear in a drop down. That had never happened before.
Hopefully this will be a little more clearer for assistance.
If you don't want Firefox to remember what you've entered into form fields you can turn off the auto form fill feature.
Go to Tools, click Options, select Privacy panel, set Firewfox will: to Use custom settings for history, Remove the check mark from the box that says Remember search & form history. Click OK
Disabling form history also prevents Firefox from storing search history for the search bar in the navigation toolbar.
I believe I fixed the problem by going changing settings in autocomplete. I no longer get websites in the drop down when I start typing a website and I no longer get my e=mail appearing when I log into a secured site.
I ran Malware and OTL as suggested and posted it in the spyware hell section. Malware didn't find anything, Avast didn't either. Superspyware did find a Adware.tracking cookie which I quarantined, but that was after I changed autocomplete.