Originally, when my comfuser booted, it showed the default black screen w/colors & the wording “Starting Windows”. But I noticed yesturday that, while the default wording is still there, it also switches to show the wording “Protected by avast! antivirus”.
I do have avast! Internet Security 7. Can anyone tell me if I can change/remove the wording altogether & just have the color-swirls (or perhaps even change that).
Update:
I tried the program http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot today & after some trial & error, I did get the “Starting Windows” & (I assume) “Resuming Windows” wording changed, but the “Protected by avast! antivirus” still shows up.
Still looking for this setting, but no success so far.
Settings are located at the upper right corner of the GUI. See attachments.
those words showing up when windows is loading is just something extra to play with in avast though, nothing harmful 
though it is not enabled by default. is there possibly someone playing with avast settings on ur computer?
DOH!
Thanks for the help, I somehow missed this while going through all the settings. I usually go through all the settings I can in a program just to make sure it’s set just the way I’d like. I may have fiddled w/this one & not known it. Again, thanks for the help.