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The WebShield/Network Shield never alerted me of the connection or tried to block it. Since I have used MLB a few times and it works well with Avast to clean things out, I decided to support MLB and bought a license. It was MLB that caught it right after I installed the license.
I went ahead and ran the OTS, and it is attached. I am running through my daily backups to see how many of those have the exe files that were giving me the headaches. If needed I can restore it to a test box and rerun OTS to see what it comes up with.