Response 1- well, I didn't feel comfortable being in the registry file, but I did look. It seems that the "temp" folder is there. I'm not real computer savvy, but I tried! Thanks
Response 2- I just have windows firewall and I temporarily disabled it - still can't get certain web pages to open. I did look for hosts, but all I find is this:
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
#
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
I don't think this is what you need, and when I opened the Host "service" file, it listed a bunch of words that didn't make my sense, but nothing referring to Avast.
One of the webpages I can't get open is Avast.com as well as a bunch of random ones and most of them I doubt would be security risk. Can I try anything else? Thanks!!