[b]Hi there, I have done some extensive reading of the board prior to posting. It appears I have a problem similar to that of many others that have been reporting over the last month. This is the multiple pop up warnings about detection of outbound attempts from the computer. I believe I have the logs required to take a look and will attach them. I appreciate any help you can offer. thank you!
AV: Norton Internet Security (Disabled - Out of date) {53C7D717-52E2-B95E-FA61-6F32ECC805DB}
AV: Windows Defender (Disabled - Up to date) {D68DDC3A-831F-4fae-9E44-DA132C1ACF46}
AV: avast! Antivirus (Enabled - Up to date) {17AD7D40-BA12-9C46-7131-94903A54AD8B}
AS: Windows Defender (Disabled - Up to date) {D68DDC3A-831F-4fae-9E44-DA132C1ACF46}
AS: avast! Antivirus (Enabled - Up to date) {ACCC9CA4-9C28-93C8-4B81-AFE241D3E736}
AS: Norton Internet Security (Disabled - Out of date) {E8A636F3-74D8-B6D0-C0D1-5440974F4F66}
FW: avast! Antivirus (Enabled) {2F96FC65-F07D-9D1E-5A6E-3DA5C487EAF0}
FW: Norton Internet Security (Disabled) {6BFC5632-188D-B806-D13E-C607121B42A0}
you have multiple AV / Firewall installed ..... never install more then one AV
I wanted to thank you guys who took the time to post answers. I will print out this thread , especially the helpful links to remove the other antivirus programs. It was all your information posted to many people that aided me in getting rid of this problem. As it turns out last night before I got any responses I used the poweliks cleaner program (by ESET) and that did the trick in like 10 seconds. The adwcleaner recommended here also removed junk prior to this process which probably helped contribute to the weakness poweliks exploited. I reset both browsers to default as well.
On the anti-virus stuff, windows of course comes with Windows defender, but in the brilliance of Microsoft it turns itself off if there is another AV on your system and you cannot toggle it. The laptop comes with Norton but I couldnt seem to delete it and that prevents Defender from running. In the past on other machines, I have used MS security essentials and malwarebytes because between the two of them Id grab everything and never, ever had a problem. The only active AV on this machine is Avast. I did not load windows defender, nor norton. But thanks for the info on safely removing things and for your time.