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Well, my Firewall was and still is turned off. Just in case, I looked for anything from Avast and I couldn’t see any rules at all for them. The event viewer did not help much. It just looked like there was an issue with connecting to the DNS server, which is due to the NIC being shut off.
My fix to re-enable it works, its just annoying and takes about a minute to complete (and I am all about instant gratification). Additionally, I have set the computer to Never Sleep, which sucks because I would like to use that feature (since, again I am all about instant results and powering on from cold takes all of two minutes ;D) At any rate, I certainly am glad to have had the responses from those of you who took some time to help me troubleshoot. A huge thanks to all of you! In the meantime, if you think you have the solution put it down and I will continue to try.