Thanks, although I'm still curious as to why Avast makes this error.
RE Java, point taken. I've heard and read about the dangers of having it on your machine. After listening to Steve Gibson rant about how bad it was, I did actually remove it. It went back on when a website I needed to use required it. I'm not involved with that site any more, so I'm inclined to take your advice and just uninstall it....in fact, that's what I'll do ;-). Thanks for the reminder.
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