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Extremely slow internet (I have a corporate cable line - blazing fast - near T1 speed). machine at half speed. AVAST tells me it is up to date - then tells me it is out of date. I just checked Now - Avast up to date - current version 150817-2. AVAST emergency update wants to connect on occasion,Connecting Application’s PID : 5736
Local Port : 65535
Protocol : UDP
Remote Port : 53
but i haven’t let it yet.
If I don’t allow ALL of the following thru the firewall, i cant connect a browser:
Firefox is trying to act as a server.
Listening Application’s PID : 3932
Local Port : 1032
Firefox is trying to access the internet.
Connecting Application’s PID : 3932
Local Port : 65535
Protocol : UDP
Firefox is trying to modify or control another application.
Event Type : OLE Connect Port
Port Name : \RPC CONTROL\OLED14C147893B54741A5A7E640C136
Process ID : 3932
Target Application PID : 912
Target Application Path : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SVCHOST.EXE
Remote Port : 53
Application PID : 3932
Command Line : --channel=“3932.0.869948897\1791960698” -greomni “C:\Documents and Settings\Mom and Dad\My Documents\Mozilla Firefox\omni.ja” -appomni "C:\Documents and Settings\Mom
Listening Application’s PID : 1468
Local Port : 1144
Protocol : TCP
Application Path : c:\documents and settings\mom and dad\my documents\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe
Connecting Application’s PID : 1468
Local Port : 65535
Protocol : UDP
Remote Port : 53
Application Path : c:\documents and settings\mom and dad\my documents\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe
The previous things I originally posted about the firewall catching, are gone - EXCEPT: OLE Connect Port which changed PID from 4068 to 3932
This old dell has 2 hidden partitions for factory recovery - a fat32 and fat16 - I mounted one after i saw there was a recycle bin and desktop.ini file installed on both 8-20-15. I cant delete them (hidden and system).
desktop ini file: [.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
I downloaded firefox as IE 8 would connect 50%(?) of the time.
Many odd entries in the registry besides HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.TMCONTAINER00000000000000000001 (and xx-002) which is still there… I’ve toyed with the windows registry since 1998 - but have been hands off so far 
I should have done this last night… I believe you are on GMT.
Thank you for your help essexboy! I hope you have more ideas!