Thank you for your help, but I seem to have solved the problem myself. Because Antivirus live was blocking both HJT and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from running, I found a way around it. I restarted the computer, and as soon as I could, right-clicked on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, then clicked on task manager. Under "processes" I made sure "all users" was clicked, then found the process called (some random letters)sysguard.exe and ended that process. I re-checked to make sure there were no more "sysguard.exe" processes. Then I was able to open the control panel and internet options, and change the LAN settings (under connections) to uncheck "use a proxy". Finally, I was able to re-install Malwarebytes, and run it. It found and removed 6 threats, and everything seems to be working fine now! This may be a simple fix for others who have the same problem...if you can open task manager and stop the process before it has time to block you from opening task manager or doing anything else, it seems to work around it! Thanks for your help.