No I re-downloaded from the avast web site:

http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe

There is no other AV software… There is an old zone alarm, quicktime, and items pertaining to video, sound, camera in the system tray.

To the best of my knowlege, there is no spyware on this machine. I’ve used ad aware, and I have scanned a the usual startup hook by hand, as well as investigate all running processes by hand using process explorer, and I do not see any improper dll’s running on any process.

The requested reboot is intermittent. Sometimes it requests a reboot, sometimes not. It has even requested a reboot before I get past the windows login screen.

At this point I’m kind of curious if the order of program execution during startup varies, and is somehow affecting things. I may try upgrading zone alarm.