Viruses, mineral deficiency, and PH problems can be hard to pinpoint. If you don't have that plant planted in brand new fresh soil where you are confident that the PH is 7.0 that would be the first place to start. Lowes/home depot and may garden centers sell for under $10 a PH meter . Green box meter head and a long metal rod that extends from it. Take a damp soil meter reading. If the PH is not 7.0 you could be looking at mineral deficiencies in your plant caused by its inability to absorb them due to the PH imbalance. You can always adjust the PH by adding garden lime or sulfur. If this is just one potted plant you are dealing with. Go buy new soil and repot....if you start to see this occurring in several plants check you PH levels...the $10 investment in a PH reader can save you hundreds of hours of dread and many days of disappointment.

that plant.. is not worth a fraction of the cost of the test strips ... for the $30 or 40 bucks the test would cost.. go buy mom and you a new hosta ... get this one off the property .. sterilize your shovel .. and forget about the soil ..;. plant anything else there ... and then go dig up moms ... and clean her shovel also ... you have a $5 hosta there.. dont go spending $25 to find out it is sick.. eh??? ken

The problem with a little new knowledge- I never noticed and worried about things like that before- thanks again for the reassurance! Now off to research transitional colors, viridescence and univittata (which I first read as "uninvited" LOL

The e-mail may or may not have a virus. It could be a false positive. Regarding AVG, do you have the automatic update disabled? Do you have the Link Scanner disabled? If yes to either or both it would produce the You May Not Be Protected report you cite. Are you on dial-up(DUN?) If yes and the automatic update is enabled, and AVG attempts to do a scheduled update when there is no DUN connection it will report a failure. Do complete the suggested online scans and attempt to update AVG. If it is updated then conduct a complete on-board scan. Just as an aside, I recently did a home service for a computer that was going off and on by itself. My service found nothing wrong with the computer. It was found to be a reoccurring failure (grounding) of one phase of the 220v coming into the house. Half of the breaker box would go out periodically and unannounced. The cause was a degraded main breaker directly after the meter and before the box. DA