Did you ever have an antivirus program installed on that PC?
Most new PCs come with a trial version of McAfee or Norton antivirus.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Ted Toal, Sierra Video Systems" <TedToalSierraVideoSystems@discussions.microsoft.c om> wrote in message news:007D1227-3961-42A6-8B6B-75B843E9AA3B@microsoft.com...
> Additional info:
>
> - turning off the Windows Firewall makes no difference.
> - I am not using any anti-virus program other than Windows Defender.
> - Some sort of Windows Defender update installed yesterday.
>
> Ted Toal