Please excuse me for being relatively naive to this subject. I received four Avast pop-ups that it had blocked a “Smartyads” virus/malware. A quick check of Smatryads on the web indicates it can be very malicious. Is this anything that I should be concerned about or has Avast done its job (and I’m therefore safe)? Anything else I should do?
you may run a scan with malwarebytes … you find it here https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
if you want a through check, also run Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (second picture) and attach the two diagnostic logs here