Okay... Reporting back.
Localhost is now accessible. But the course of action was not quite what you might think.
Due to the close expiration date for my NOD32 subscription, and the concern over it's impact on Apache, I decided to change antivirus horses. And by the way, I had detected some chatter about NOD32 here in this forum, but my previous experience seemed to negate any concern on
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