Virus? Updates installed without asking permission....

My friend sent me an e-mail yesterday stating:
*"About 3 days ago I came into my office and my computer said I would need to restart for the updates to .... normaly it won't download an update unless it asks. Since then I am having trouble with the airport signal staying strong enough in my office and the batteriy won't charge unless the computer is turned off ... everything is very, very slow."*
I know that his computer is near a very strong Netgear Router and normally gets 100% signal strength from his office.
Can someone help us to know what to do?
Thanks

I have no idea what to do or what the diagnosis for this is, but im going to throw out a possible cause?... :P
Maybe the battery is acting up with the charging issue and causing magnetic distortion of the wireless network?... Improbable, but not impossible
Im not sure about it being a virus for two reasons, 1. they're kind of hard to find, 2. creating a virus to stop a battery from charging sounds sort of difficult to do and would only affect a very FEW number of people out of the whole computing world
Thats as much as i can do for you, hope someone can help you soon.

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