What that site brought to mind is that these A & B programs may be merely spy bots rather than related to the blocking that is happening.

The Internet has become so complex that at times one can think one kind of intrusion is actually something that it isn't.

The computer in question has nothin confidential on it so I am not excessively worried about damage. My deep concern is to be able to figure out what is being done & how it got onboard (assuming athere are intrusive programs operating).

I used to rely on netstat -a -n | more to look for suspicious connections but these aren't showing up (as best as I can tell).

Cheers

Doug