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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Swmbos Lenovo laptop has lost ability to charge due to USB C socket breaking inside where it connects to the mother board.
She has fired up sons old Sony Vaio to use while arranging a replacement Lenovo.
She has spent the last few days doing updates, binning old programmes etc etc.
It kept disconnecting itself from the interweb, but yesterday she though she had fixed that and it appeared to be running pretty well.
Today when she switched it on, rather than see the expected connection options (ours plus a few of the neighbours secured ones) she saw only two options and didnt recognise either of them.
One of them was geckonet, which after a little research she has decided might be something scary ?
There is a bit of battery life left in her Lenovo so she switched that one and it showed the usual list of possible connections she would expect to see.
Any advice or opinions welcome.

[Doctor Gollum]

Polish interwebs provider by the look of it. Without knowing the history of the laptop, it's impossible to say why it might be there

[STEMO]

Swmbos Lenovo laptop has lost ability to charge due to USB C socket breaking inside where it connects to the mother board.
She has fired up sons old Sony Vaio to use while arranging a replacement Lenovo.
She has spent the last few days doing updates, binning old programmes etc etc.
It kept disconnecting itself from the interweb, but yesterday she though she had fixed that and it appeared to be running pretty well.
Today when she switched it on, rather than see the expected connection options (ours plus a few of the neighbours secured ones) she saw only two options and didnt recognise either of them.
One of them was geckonet, which after a little research she has decided might be something scary ?
There is a bit of battery life left in her Lenovo so she switched that one and it showed the usual list of possible connections she would expect to see.
Any advice or opinions welcome.

Get the Lenovo fixed/replaced and tell her to use her iPad in the meantime. I don't own a laptop, I do everything on my iPad.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

She has two ipads and some other kind of tablet. Hates the things as do I. 
Lenovo is apparently unfixable. 
Strange that the Lenovo shows the usual / expected networks, but the Sony shows gockonet and some other unheard of option.
Didnt do it yesterday. Just when switched on today. 

[ronnyd]

She has two ipads and some other kind of tablet. Hates the things as do I. 
Lenovo is apparently unfixable. 
Strange that the Lenovo shows the usual / expected networks, but the Sony shows gockonet and some other unheard of option.
Didnt do it yesterday. Just when switched on today. 

Perhaps it's for little lizards? 

[TheBoy]

If worried about the Sony, format and reinstall. Or chuck it because its Sony

[TheBoy]

It is common for old laptops under newer versions of windows not to see any wifi, so you may see a list of static connection profiles.  Usually a reboot (not shutdown and turn back on) fixes it until the next shutdown or standby

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

It did a long windows update last night and then the usual expected networks came up.
No idea how or why, but looks like panic is over. 

[TheBoy]

It did a long windows update last night and then the usual expected networks came up.
No idea how or why, but looks like panic is over. 

As said, if you suspect malware on the laptop, don't piss around, format and reinstall Windows.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Will pass the message to swmbo, thanks.