Joe, Sonny and Mike, Thanks guys for all your input and suggestions. I have yet to have any problems with Norton, but be sure if I do I will can the program fast. I'm not one to let problems linger where I have to live in their forums because something or other fails to work properly. I do find with Norton that their are an awful lot of settings that seem redundant. I do like programs that are more "set and forget" which I do believe Security Essentials is more like. Can I ask you guys what firewall you all are using? Windows 7, Comodo? Just curious if I have to make a change. I did get this issue fixed. I re-scanned my computer with a couple of these explorer.exe backups that I had lingering in the windows folder but because they weren't active when I first scanned them, there was no Malware found. Once I made them active MBAM found something called "Heuristics..Reserved.Word.Exploit" Quarantined them and problem resolved, so if that did it fine, if not I'll keep my eye on things. Thanks again guys.