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Hello again! I’ve updated Avast to the most recent version and it’s on a full scan, quick scan, and a custom scan set up to find rootkits… so far it hasn’t found anything! Before, it would find hundreds of PID rootkits within seconds.
My uneducated guess at this point is that since the program version was old and the virus definitions are new, that it somehow detects its own activity as a rootkit. I had googled around a while before making it to this forum/thread, and saw that many people had a very similar problem to mine, and they all happened during this month. So I’m thinking that it has to do with the recent virus definitions and the old program version being incompatible.
Then again, it’s possible that restarting the computer is making Avast say there’s nothing now, and it doesn’t have to do with me updating it. And maybe it’ll come back after being on a bit longer… let’s hope that’s not the case! I’ve gotten enough stress out of this.
I’ll post again if it comes back, but not if it doesn’t.
I want to thank you both for helping me with this!