Unfortunately I used firefox and it was set to clear history on exit (I changed that) so I have no way of seeing where I somehow wound up back on April 27. If someone was spoofing the mcafee website I have no way to verify this. Whether whoever I spoke to was trying to sell me a service i didn't need for $179 or installing a virus on my machine I'm pretty sure that failed. I swapped out my HDD-0 (C-boot drive + 4 more logical drives/partitions) immediately for a cloned one and brought it up-to-date with an update script that I wrote. I also replaced my HDD-1 with 5 partitions within a few days. I have run full scans and run the tools that were pointed to by mcafee (getSusp,RootkitRemover and Stinger32) and nothing showed up.
That brings me to another 'issue'. I was advised to disable Real Time Scanning with MalwareBytes because it was thought that two RTS's might be a problem. However, I see that Stinger32 seems to install its own RTS. It is still running 'Real Protect' which looks like an RTS which is running alongside of mcafee's RTS.
Should this still be running? I see when I right click I can stop it or remove Real Protect.