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Well, thanks for replying.

I contacted a Microsoft tech by email and he sent me three zip files which I executed and it corrected the problem.

Don't suppose I could upload them here?

There are no system restore points to restore.

And the virus has reinstalled itself so restoring to an earlier time is not an option.

The virus began again the same way. There was the message...

I got a virus last night (conhost.exe).

I was able to get Malwarebytes going and got a clean scan.

I installed Avast Antivirus and got a clean scan.

I ran Spybot Search and Destroy...