I think it enabled itself, since an hour has passed (I turned it off for an hour) and when I righ-click on the icon, nothing appears. When I open the avast panel, it says all of the shields are turned on. So I suppose it's up and running.

Yes, all avast! shields needs to be enabled.

Can I normally use my browser now?

(So far, so good, no notifications).


Yes, I have tell zoek to target the bad ‘thing’ and to reset the ‘problem’ back to default. Use freely zoek and tell me is all well now.

And, one more question. If this works (I'm crossing my fingers), but happens again at some point (in a month, half a year, whatever), should I repeat the zoek instructions you gave me? Or the malware will act differently and will transform, and I should ask for guidance on this forum again?

Not a good idea. All these ‘script’ tools (FRST,OTL,Zoek, …etc) are based on generetic system scan. It may or may not act the same or different (bad different) on some other computer or deployed time. The above zoekscript are written in relation to posted generic logs and it uses some force routines and they are not common.

Such operations can result damage to the system if not properly executed, re-viewed in logfiles and written in relation to the posted logs.