I clicked on a page, might have been Yahoo email, and the page half loaded (progress bar) and hung, that happens a lot on Yahoo. Anyhow I looked in the firewall log to see what was the hold up and found it was
64.202.163.179 ....GoDaddy.com, Inc., 64.202.160.0 - 64.202.191.255
So I figured it was some data miner or some such and I would put it in the host file so it could call its self.
I went to:
http://www.selfseo.com/find_host_by_ip.php to get the host name from the IP addy...it was
linhost212.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net so I gave it the usual 127.0.0.1 and put it in the host file but it continued to hang.
A day or so before I had emailed Alex van Eesteren over at the IXQUICK search engine site, and told him that go-daddy seemed to be slowing the search engine down a good bit.
He replied that they use go-daddy certificates for the HTTPS tunnel. I turned off the HTTPS and it was O.K. then.
But the IP address of the IXQUICK go-daddy was 72.167.239.239. I wonder if there could be a connection?

I hope this helps untangle this mystery I would sure like to know if my computer has been been recruited into the April Fools Virus Army. I have 26 hours to wait to find out ...LOL !
Thanks for the interest, it is appreciated.