Well, I guess I am joining the problem group!

My Avast has decided, after weeks of running fine, to go nutty.

The blue update box now shows a “new” version 4.278 when I already updated to 280.

My XP wants to reboot and reboot and reboot.

The 3 files in question seem to definetly be the source of the problem:
msvc170 7.0.9447.0 created 12/17/2001 53.5
msvcp70 7.0.9447.0 created 1/21/2002 476kb
msvcr70 7.0.9466.0 created 7/9/2003 336kb

I have attempted using the solutions presented herein with no luck at all.

Any new ideas?

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