You wont believe this, but my laptop with XP has done the same thing at almost the same time.
When it first happened , I had about 49 Compaq help windows pop up ????
I cant get the computer to do anything now, it just has the hourglass rotating when I try o open a programm, which annoys me....
I have run AVG virus scan and still no go.
Maybe these computers talk to each other ????