At the bottom of this page are other threads with similar titles. I was reading one, P face masks, found a long post by Mr. Consistency from 8 years ago saying just about what he said here.
I was about to copy and paste it here, but I then had a worm infection block.
I have no way of knowing if they are related, but I won't be back to that thread.
Apparently, my computer had lots of junk and unsafe files.
It took Microsoft's tech almost 2 hours of scans and cleaning.
YUK!