If you want to cover yourself a little more, pickup the free version of Macrium Reflect, or any other decent imaging utility, and image your laptop once a month. That way if something bad or fishy happens, you can roll it back to a known good image. I keep a free copy of Malwarebytes installed, but not running in the background, to do a scan if I feel something fishy might be happening.
To make that easier I use a small 128-250 GB boot partition on my PCs, and I just image that. Everything else (documents folder, all other personal folders, games) are installed on another drive(s), so the images are fairly small and rolling back to an old image won't lose any personal data, except for the few games that insist on putting game saves and settings in the APPDATA folders (although with Steam cloud sync, you'd get them all back anyway).
I image the gaming PC boot partition once a month manually, and the workstation is setup to image the boot partition once a week. Both have 4TB drives for the images. Every few months I take a 'golden' known good image and throw it in an archive folder just in case I have some long term issue I don't catch right away, because Macrium will eventually delete the oldest image to make room. Heck I keep an image for both PCs that was made right after the OS was first installed, and all drivers and basic apps installed, just to have a known clean image I can go back to if I really need to.
This comment was edited on Sep 7, 2024, 12:37.
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
- Joanna Maciejewska