Can you schedule a boot-time scanning?
Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning.
Select for scanning archives.
Boot.
If infected files are found, it’s safer to send them to Chest instead of deleting them.
This way you can further analysis them.
After that, I mean, if your computer is really clean, I suggest an avast installation from the scratch.
Just to be sure, hasn’t any antivirus being installed before avast?
As I said, I have done an avast installation from scratch THREE times now
and NO, no antivirus was installed prior to installing Avast.
I don’t know whether this is relevant but if I start Avast and click the button to look in the chest
I get an error that: “the RPC server was too busy to complete this operation”
Also if I click on the disabled Avast blue ball in the system tray I get a popup message:
“The AAVM subsystem detected an RPC error. The operation could not be completed.”
This error is generally due to another antivirus or security program installed. So my insistence on asking you. Sorry.
Maybe Microsoft Security Essentials? ???
Sorry I do not use Windows 7 (yet).
I opened the Services window by right clicking on Computer and selecting Manage from the popup menu
I opened Services & Applications and then Services
There is an entry called “Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator”
It was set to Manual and the details said:
“In Windows 2003 and earlier versions of Windows, the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator service manages the RPC name service database.
In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, this service does not provide any functionality and is present for application compatibility.”
I right clicked on the name in the list and selected Properties, I changed the startup type from “Manual” to “Automatic”