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[William]

My best guess is that you didn't actually download Avast. Is it possible that you downloaded a virus on accident? That happened to me once, I tried downloading an anti-virus and accidentally downloaded a virus. Try downloading Malware Anti-Virus, it saved my ass when I had the "System-tool" virus.

[sigtau]

I've never heard of a "Malware Anti-Virus" but you may be talking about Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware, which I recommend to keep as a fallback tool to supplement Avast.

[Sacred Nym]

My best guess is that you didn't actually download Avast. Is it possible that you downloaded a virus on accident? That happened to me once, I tried downloading an anti-virus and accidentally downloaded a virus. Try downloading Malware Anti-Virus, it saved my ass when I had the "System-tool" virus.

Not in the slightest. A simple uninstallation wouldn't get rid of a virus so easily, what I downloaded was indeed, Avast.

Also, assuming you are talking about Malwarebytes, I've had that for a long time now. It's really a supplement tool like Spybot or Ad-Aware. Not an antivirus unto itself.

[DarkFlameWolf]

welp, I'm typing this up on a friend's computer. Avast has failed me. A trojan slipped in and installed some 'system tool' claiming it had found a virus and I needed to buy and purchase it to get it cleaned up and de-infected. I scanned using Avast, and it said it found no viruses on the quick scan, so I started the thorough scan, and about 20% through that, blue screen of death and reboot. Now its in a endless cycle of reboot. I cannot do a damn thing with the friggin computer and I do feel I've lost a great deal of work now. I'm going to take it into best buy to the geek squad and hope to gawd they can get it fixed. This is so fething annoying!

[Geoffrey]

Just a note to everybody, never use AVG. It killed my laptop. If you don't want to pay for anything, just use Microsoft Security Essentials. Also, don't have more than one active antivirus installed, it slows down computers a lot.

If you simply want to have a virus scan, TrendMicro has a downloadable program that only does scans with no installation necessary here. It caught 114 viruses that AVG missed on my laptop before it's HDD died.

Plus, if anyone cares, Google Chrome now supports AdBlock and has NoScript's functions built in.

EDIT: I noticed how much that just sounded like a crappy advertisement, totally unintentional.

Edited by Molten Onyx, 27 December 2010 - 08:33 PM.

[Nicholas Steel]

Multiple virus scanners only slow the computer down if you enable all of there real time protection functions. It's perfectly save to have multiple installed so long as only one of them is performing real time protection.

Trend Micro is indeed coo' and you can use there HijackThis tool to generate a log you can post online for others to analyze and help with removal of the virus. The log file will contain the names of all running processes on the computer.