Wow Jackie! You are so right! I forgot to turn off Avira Anti-Virus while I ran the scan. I don't use Windows Defender's real-time scanning. I just run it periodically in case there might be something Avira overlooked. I've been thinking of uninstalling WD . On 5/5/2010 7:10 PM, Jackie McBride wrote: > George, do u perchance have another antispyware or antivirus running > at the same time as windows Defender? I personally have never been a > fan of that software--seen it ham over more machines than I can > count--but if there are 2 programs of the same type trying to do > real-time protection on your machine, you're cruisin' for a bruisin'. > > -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.