Thank you both for your replies to my problem. At the present time I am not that confident with my computer skills, to use the fix that you graciously supplied Owbist and will hold on to your linked information for now. I did post the problem into the LanzDownForum, as suggested by Ravencajun, along with the requested logs, Etc. As I stated before my computer skills are not great and because of my nervousness about screwing things up worse than they already are, I may have to call in an "expert" to assist me with all of this. I do however appreciate both of you taking the time to help me out with this problem and the advice that you kindly give. Onward and upward!

I have been thinking a little more about this. As many know I live in rural America and still have to connect with an antique DUN. Because of this connection I have every application configured "not" to automatically update or check for updates. This protocol allows me to use the maximum connectiion speed available for my focused tasking. Of course, the down side is I have to do updates manually. Since the last AVG upgrade to the current version I have found that it will regularly update on its own while I am surfing even though its configured not to. I wonder if AVG is pinging home causing it to update. If I am correct this could be the answer to your concern. DA

If you choose to go with one of the free ones like AVAST, which is what I use, you will have to go through the full removal of Kaspersky before the install of any other AV, there is a removal tool for it, if you need it just let me know and I can link you to it. do you have the full suite, AV and firewall or just AV? if the full suite you will need a new firewall also unless you have Vista or 7 and can use the windows firewall. Just things to consider

Well, I believe that they are exceptional, or I wouldn't have used them, but I am expecting that TM Internet Security is going to be doing the same things for me that those other programs would have. In fact, on its first scan, it did find 112 things to fix, which Malwarebytes hadn't found, in spite of my having had it do a scan every morning.