Thanks devil. While I'm not actually positive yet, I believe my problem might be from my Windscribe VPN. Perhaps it was pinging out to check latency or something. While I was not aware at the time of the original post, or didn't realise, Google was also telling me of suspicious behaviour and making me pick out fire hydrants or crosswalks to prove I was a person.
So after hours of clamscans and just before reloading my computer this morning, I disabled the VPN, and ceased to get the Google warning. At this time I seem to be able to use the VPN as long as I don't enable any of the blocking feature for ads, malware, cryptominers etc. So far so good.
Thanks for your reply and offer of assistance by yourself or someone, but I couldn't Iog in to post. I think I am now banned under every email I have, by trying to get into the forum for help. I did manage to get back in by changing the password of my original account, hoping things are cured.
Cliff