What is the Event Viewer, and should I care?

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To me, the most mystifying thing about the Event Viewer is what programs were involved. I had one triggering off every 5 minutes, but it wasn't at all obvious what it was and a Google search came up with anything from malware to system and needed. Someone else suggested it was Symantec's updater, and once I eliminated everything that smelled of Symantec on my system that log entry went away. Makes me feel good not to be cluttering up stuff with unnecessary internet requests.

Thanx Leo! It's amazing that people who can write complex computer programs in code often seem to have great difficulty documenting their programs in a spoken language. It never occurred to me to right click a line in the event viewer, and apparently it never occurred to Microsoft to suggest it, either.

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