Thank you all so much for the help. Everything is working fine today. I'm chalking this up as a learning experience and I'm sticking w/ Avast. However, I realize I was very lucky in that my files only got moved to my Virus Chest (and I didn't realize they were actually being restored when I was trying to restore them - did NOT know a copy would be left in the Chest). I totally empathize w/ those whose computers are completely TU.