>>>>Thought that maybe it had to do with McAfee Firewall (which I never have active) so I tried activating it. It came up with some set-up wizardy-type dialogues that I tried to answer as best I could (terminologies hardly clear to me). Also found newer software available for it, so I installed and re-booted.
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>>>The Firewall might be in cause here. Anyone else could confirm that? I know Nick has this problem as well as another user. Can anyone of you confirm that disabling the firewall could eliminate that message?
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>>I stopped the firewall and still have the same error......
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>Are you using VShield? Is this the one that causes problems?

Yes vshield is the one.....I did like Tracey and reactivated the dat file before the problem started and now have no alert messages....