Hello Pondus and True Indian,

First, thank you for your replies.

I found that IE8 was running a bit slow and scanned with Avast which pulled up item (1) of my last post. Subsequent thereto I got the second notification while attempting a site visit. Again a scan with Avast pulled up item 2 of my last post. I do not now recall the exact site I was visiting but I think I was looking for a Photoshop tutorial. Unfortunately I cannot pull the same up because after deleting the the items complained of because I cleaned out Temporary Internet files Browsing Histry and all using Internet options as well as running Ccleaner. Therefore my answer will be that I was not scanning with Mbam but in fact with Avast. I went a bit further to uninstall Mbam with a view to re-installing the same. I have not yet done that.

Permit me to refer to the last paragraph of my last post (“Having read your replies I surmise that I will rue my decision and will have to do a clean install of the system. I however look forward to receiving your further comments and/or suggestions.”)and do ask for you to let me have your thoughts on the question.

I am to add here that although I have quite some scratch the surface knowledge of computers, my experience is very limited in most areas.

Thanking again for your kind consideration.

Standeb.