igor: I have no unformatted sector on my hard drive. The avast.int shows a 5MB file that was created when I downloaded/installed and updated an hour later. I cannot (conveniently) open/read it.

Everything seems to be running normal. Speed is fine. If I let VRDB run in the background nothing bad happens that I can see, it just takes up 20% CPU usage continuously. All security checks show no problems and I can find nothing out of the ordinary (with my limited knowledge) when I read the HijackThis log.

I have SBC DSL and problem occurs whether I am connected or not.

I appreciate the assistance, Gene