I may have let in a malicious file.

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2. Mea Culpa.

I had been using a third party firewall, but have been having enormous trouble staying on the internet. I kept getting kicked off of wireless every five to ten minutes. This has been going on for over a month. So, based on someone's recommendation that Windows Defender was okay as long as I kept it up to date, I put my laptop through a test. I removed the third party firewall and anti-virus and allowed the computer to work on Windows Defender only. It was just two days. But, in that time I discovered the problem. I was running an older program that needed to be set up as a trusted site and that requires going around all of the security features of Window 10 and current browsers.

I knew I was going to try putting my third party firewall/anti-virus back on the system today to see if they would work with my fix, but the wireless went down unexpectedly. And, so, I followed Microsoft recommendations.

Yes, it was boneheaded. Never trust It's true in politics and life in general.