[HairOfTheDog]

svchost.exe is what drives your normal internet communications.... that it was communicating with someone is not scary in itself. The theme of the message is that whatever was attempted was BLOCKED by McAfee and that is good. I can't say whether it means you actually have the trojan NOK NOK or whether someone just tried to inflict it on you, because I am a driver, not a mechanic and it is all word salad to me.... Bear?

Did you just get that message from McAfee after turning the firewall on? - I would highly recommend turning the firewall ON but turning notifications OFF. It will warn you night and day of every blip and ping it sees and make you nuts with constant interruptions. If it is protecting you, great, but the constant warnings are a bother.

[2Jedismom]

No, I actually already had the firewall on. I noticed the warnings had been logged on the 13th...which was the night I downloaded all those updates, I believe...one occured at 3:27am and the other at 10:26am on the 13th.