hello DavidR,

Thank you for your response and direction. I will try a clean uninstall and reinstall to see if that fixes the problem. Just for reference, when I did the last clean install, I opted for the minimum config and I unchecked that new security option (but I forgot what it was called). The reason I unchecked it was because I never saw it before and I have done several clean installations of Avast in the past 6 months. Also, I apologize for not giving my OS specs upfront but I’m running Win 8 x64. Anyway, thank you for your advice.

plsrepli