Ta-da!!! I fixed it. For the 31st time (!) I opened ZA and looked through the various screens. I found "Appplication Control" and for Spywareblaster there were red "X's" under "inbound" and "outbound". In this same table SAS (which is updating) had green checks. There was no indication that I could/should click on the "X's" but I thought to do so; a menu appeared which allowed me to change the red "X's" to green checks. After this, when I tried to update Spywareblaster, it worked. Thank you all for considering my problem. Mike_kaiser, you're probably correct, and I'm heavy on the security programs. This computer is about 7 years old and over the years, I've slowly added these programs (and very recently, the router) as they've been recommended here. When one has been recommended I don't recall a corresponding recommendation to get rid of "x". So the list has grown. My computer seems to be running fine and isn't particularly slow so I haven't inquired about what I could remove.

You can try going to start> run> type in> regsvr32 (space) msstdfmt.dll> Ok. regsvr32 msstdfmt.dll Or Go to start> Right click > Explore > Program files> SpywareBlaster folder> uninsooo (Setup/uninstall). Removing SpywareBlaster and doing a new install for 4.2. I would run Malwarebytes to make sure your clean> Good luck!

spywareblaster is not a scanner type program it sits in the background and helps to keep you protected from malicious sites, I use it on all my windows computers and highly recommend it, you just install the free version, then click on updates, then click on the enable all protection so that the shield is green as long as the shield is green and you have all the updates you are good. I manually check for updates about once a week. for a good program that you can have on the pc no problems with any antivirus programs is malwarebytes. i would get the free version update it and run full scan with it once a week or so. Here are the directions, but I personally always do a full scan instead of the quick one. How to download and install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware application for Windows computers I would do that scan now since you think you may have something on it now, let us know if it finds anything.

Thanks Raven for the headsup and I agree. If people don't have it...they should have it! Bob