I checked the log after computer re-booted. “1107/072812:WARNING:dns_config_service_win.cc(668)] Failed to read DnsHosts” . Once I pasted the boot scan log in a word doc. The log showed this repeated message for a page and a half with only the numbers/numbers changing. I do have spybot search & destroy 2.1 installed in a default configuration. Is Spybot blocking Avast boot scan or is there a problem? Not sure what to do and I don’t remember seeing this message before in the boot scan log?

Is Spybot blocking Avast boot scan or is there a problem?
there may be a conflict.... latest spybot now also have a antivirus egine integrated

i recomend using malwarebytes www.malwarebytes.org

I will take a look at malwarebytes. I noticed that with this version of spybot that there is a host file tab that shows host file redirects to protect computer and Avast maybe being locked out by spybot. If so, that is okay as long as I know that is all it is. I have posted at spybot to see if they are aware of this blocking. Spybot’s older version had a cautionary popup that indicated that spybot could have conflicts with other protection programs and I don’t think that version did anything to the host file without user intervention. The current program seems to just do it.

I believe that I failed to remove immunization from the old version of spybot when I installed the newer version. This may have been the reason for the “failed to read DNS Host” during the first Avast boot scan. I did an update on the new version of spybot, did the immunization with the new version, did a normal spybot scan, and did a rootkit scan. This time when I repeated the Avast boot scan things were more normal and Avast found “andora.class” to be infected.

Between the using of both programs I believe an infection or a false positive has been detected and dealt with. Something was wrong and I had noted a slow down. That is why I was using both programs.

I have been depending on Avast to do the whole job of defending my computer for a long time but now attacks seem to be on the rise and I have started using more tools to cross check and somethings maybe having conflicts.