Essexboy, your advice and assistance appears to have fixed this problem. http://forum.avast.com/Smileys/default/smiley.gif You really know your stuff!

However, I do have a few questions, if you don’t mind:

  1. So, what was the problem, and how did that FRST fix correct it? How do you know what FRST fix to recommend? It there a secret manual for FRST?
  2. I set the computer to do a boot scan to check for more/other viruses. I rebooted, and it is doing that scan now. Do you see any problems doing this boot scan? What is the difference between a full scan and a boot scan?
  3. From some of the other threads dealing with this problem, I thought it might be a virus, so I decided to do a full scan on my desktop computer; Avast found some viruses on that one, and recommended that I do a boot scan, which I did, and it found more (or the same ones?). In the boot scan, I deleted some, put some in the chest, and ignored some. Afterward, I did an individual scan of the ignored files, and Avast reported no threat found! Why do some scans indicate there are threats, and others don’t?

After the boot scan, I’ll try a Safe Mode boot and test the other user accounts, etc.; but I’m expecting for all that to work. If not, I’ll let you know.

Thanks again for the help. Do you have a tip jar or something?