Avast keeps telling me over and over that the above-noted process has been identified as a threat and blocked - somehow or other it appears to be linked to Windows Explorer which shows up in my Task Manager but is not being used.
Cate
Avast keeps telling me over and over that the above-noted process has been identified as a threat and blocked - somehow or other it appears to be linked to Windows Explorer which shows up in my Task Manager but is not being used.
Cate
welcome to the forum. I suggest you try a boot scan with avast and a scan with malwarebytes antimalware and see if they come up with anything, as a first step/s.
http://www.schmahl.net/avastbootscan.php -instruction on how to make a boot scan.
http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/ link to malwarebytes.
download install update and do a scan with malwarebytes. don’t forget to remove what it finds. and a system reboot might be needed.
good luck and let us know on the progress or if you need more help.