Sorry, thought I replied & marked this as solved.
I'm going with what Pyramid said about multiple browsers. After I cleaned everything, shut down & restarted, it was back to normal.

Pyramid,...

Thanks for reply, VT is not my browser home page. I don't think I explained it well, let my try again.

My toolbar bookmark for VirusTotal address is https :// www . virustotal . com/ .

I...

Was surfing the web. Scanned a Zip file at VT, said it was OK.
Downloaded it.
Before extracting, scanned with Defender and MBAM, both said clean.
Extracted & re-scanned again Defender & MBAM...

I just came back to the PC & the lock screen has a popup that says the Recycle bin is corrupted & asked if I wanted to empty it? I just closed it out.

Yes each time when the new router's arrived,...

Ty for the reply.

That's pretty much what I did & after reinstalling, everything seems OK. But give it a few days & things start happening again. E.G. this re-install is less than a week old &...

Hello! from a new guy.

I must say what a great forum ya have here, knowledgeable & helpful people. Tutorial's are awesome (even I can follow them & that's no small feat).

Anyhow, I've been...