I did run the first scan in "normal" mode. Your analysis makes sense (guess we'll never really know) especially since I received notification immediately after starting the computer for the day...I've read that some viruses "boot" every time you start Windows so that's probably when AVG caught it.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time and I sincerely hope you are correct that the virus was merely dormant and AVG caught it before it could gather any information and transmit. Which brings up another question: would Sygate personal firewall allow a virus program to transmit information out without asking the user if it's okay? Seems to ask me just about every other time something tries to go out with some sort of transmission.

Thanks again for the assistance.