However they could not be sent to either the virus chest or be repaired as both servers for sending to virus chest or repair were not working. I deleted the varmints.

:o There is no hurry to delete a file…u clould done a boot-time scan to take care of those PUPS…what if it is a legit file and u deleted it then u are in troublebut u can u give us the loacation and the threat name to identifiy if it is a FP or not…it can be a false positive…there is no reason for a pup removal to cause a server not working…