Thank you for your reply, Pondus.
Now I am noticing that the Avast icon in systray has a yellow ! and says "Attention, your system is not fully protected" and the Windows Security alert is saying Malware Protection is out of date!
Is this something new with Avast or is it because I used system restore? Now that I think of it, the Windows Security alert was saying that before I used System Restore and that's why I clicked on update (hoping for it to only check the definition files).
I currently have Avast 8.0.1483. All of my shields are running and I just did a Quick Scan which showed the computer is clean. Is something wrong with my Avast or are these notifications something new that Avast is doing?
Avast never did this before.
I also have "secureline" listed in Security, although when I got version 8.0.1483 I did not click to put it into browsers, I closed the window instead. I didn't know it was still there.
I would appreciate your advice.
Sincerely, Libra