Juliet,
Ok, I read the articles. I wish I had time to go to the classed mentioned in your footer. Wow, to be able to learn this and be able to help other people get patched up would be very cool... keeping that in mind. Do you enjoy it?
I read about the Win10 (telemetry) prevention. I didn't know about Spybot's Anti-Beacon. I am going to download that and hope it doesn't cross paths with MalwareBytes.
I ran the Delfix and it did it's job
That's pretty neat.
As for the blue screen, this is the only time in this (now 2 yr old) computer's life that this has ever happened. Something tells me that we just "jerked it around" a little and it had to cleanse itself (may sound hokey, but the only way I know to say it)... not real worried.
I'd certainly go to the tech forum as I'm not completely certain that hardware is up to par.
I've used Avast for years... is this simply a personal preference or is there truly one that stands above the others?
Thanks Juliet, you've been most helpful.
Jodi