Avast itself will only initiate a connection for updates, and they are in the order of Kilobytes

You may have something on your system

Download aswMBR.exe ( 511KB ) to your desktop.

Double click the aswMBR.exe to run it

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee362/Essexboy3/ASWMbr1.gif

Click the “Scan” button to start scan

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee362/Essexboy3/ASWMbr2.gif

On completion of the scan click save log, save it to your desktop and post in your next reply

THEN

Download OTL to your Desktop

[*]Double click on the icon to run it. Make sure all other windows are closed and to let it run uninterrupted.
[*]Click on Minimal Output at the top
[*]Click on Scan all users
[*]Download the following file scan.txt to your Desktop. Click here to download it. You may need to right click on it and select “Save”
[*]Double click inside the Custom Scan box at the bottom
[*]A window will appear saying “Click Ok to load a custom scan from a file or Cancel to cancel”
[*]Click the Ok button and navigate to the file scan.txt which we just saved to your desktop
[*]Select scan.txt and click Open. Writing will now appear under the Custom Scan box
[*]Click the Quick Scan button. Do not change any settings unless otherwise told to do so. The scan wont take long.

[*]When the scan completes, it will open two notepad windows. OTL.Txt and Extras.Txt. These are saved in the same location as OTL.
[*]Please copy (Edit->Select All, Edit->Copy) the contents of these files, one at a time and post them in your topic