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I just want to let everyone who posted with me that I ran a scan this morning and nothing was found so it appears I am back to normal.
Turning System Restore off, then back on, thus clearing all the restore points is what seemed to do the trick.
I still state firmly that the sequence of events was that I turned the computer on after it had been off for about 21 days. I updated Avast and Malwarebytes and ran scans. I got a mile of files showing up in my Avast scan that were marked as password protected. It was only the following day that I updated Shockwave so I don’t see how one can have anything to do with the other.
I’ve just accidentally stumbled on some information in the forum that Avast has apparently caused problems with System Restore for some.
Anyway, I’m just letting all of you know that clearing SR points did the trick, but I wouldn’t really want to have to be doing that all the time.