Appears to have been ripped out by the roots, so to speak. :wink:

It looks good.

If your nod32 is paid for, I might be tempted to go with that, at least until the subscription runs out. I’ve never used it so I can’t fairly comment on it’s impact on a system as far as slowing things down. I’m just thinking of the $'s, but you must have had a reason to change and if avast is your preference then go with avast. I was a mcafee user, but it bogged my poor old machine down too much, I’ve been happy with avast.

You have at least one resident spyware and, IMO, a very good on demand scanner, in SAS, plus the anti-rootkit. That should be fine.

I would look at a firewall though, as it would appear you are using the windows firewall.

I’m sure Tech, DavidR, or someone will pop in and comment.

Clean up time, the best time… ;D

  1. Click start button, click run, copy and paste the following line into the box

combofix /u

  1. Open HJT, click misc tools button, slide the slider down, click uninstall.

  2. Create a new restore point

You must be logged on to an administrator account
Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore.
Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.
In the text box labeled Restore Point Description, type a name for this restore point , click create

  1. Remove old restore points
  • Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - system tools. Launch the Disk Cleanup tool and let it run. When it finishes a box with tabs will appear, select the more options tab. On this tab you will find a section for System Restore. If you press the Clean Up button for that section, Windows will delete all restore points except for the most recent one.
  1. Download and run this clean up utility. You can use it regularly. When it’s first run, it is in demo mode to show you what it will remove. Review it and then rerun in real mode. It is configurable.

CleanUp

  1. You may want to consider this

If you are using windows firewall, please note that it doesn’t provide outbound protection. A third party firewall will.

A discussion on free firewalls can be found here.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30808.0

You’re welcome. Take care and keep safe.