I only have seven systems around here. :wink: Three laptops, two desktops, a Cybernet Elite II and a G3 iMac. Plus a third desktop waiting to be put together.

How many pages of system specs do you want?

The issue at hand is why Avast would suddenly decide the hosts file is part of a rootkit? Same for one of the critical files for the video driver? Deleting either would cause problems.

Avast has also recently tried to delete, several times, update files that Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool has downloaded. I keep telling Avast to ignore, it keeps wanting to delete.

I very much doubt MSRT is malware, though it and MSE refuse to acknowledge the GameVance remover is NOT GameVance and constantly want to delete it from my folder of cleanup utilities I use for computer service work.