Thanks for the suggestion, That was one of the things I checked when it first happened I have calibre set to trusted in ZoneAlarm.. and I do not use windows firewall. ( I also ran calibre without any firewal or malware/av programs running ... (tried in both normal and windows safe mode ) also I un-install IE completely as well as maxathon, tried running it without either program on the machine, then again after reinstalling...
I can say I'm freeing up disk space and generally cleaning up my pc.. so I got that going for me
