I will take a look at malwarebytes. I noticed that with this version of spybot that there is a host file tab that shows host file redirects to protect computer and Avast maybe being locked out by spybot. If so, that is okay as long as I know that is all it is. I have posted at spybot to see if they are aware of this blocking. Spybot’s older version had a cautionary popup that indicated that spybot could have conflicts with other protection programs and I don’t think that version did anything to the host file without user intervention. The current program seems to just do it.