Yes, the prodigal child has come home. Why you ask? Because the brains reside in this forum. I recently had to reboot/format/rescue my computer, don't know why but it just got so slow clogged that we decided to start from the system restore again. Now for my problem, we had no anti-virus protection, my Norton being long expired, so I downloaded 'Avast' anti virus from downloads.com . Seemed to work fine for a few weeks now we get sudden virus attack Messages upon starting the computer every day. they say that a sign of the 'Win32:Adware-001[trj]' has been found in the /documents/winshow/winshow.dll file and also in the System Volume Information\_restore{blah blah lots of numbers blah}.dll .
Anyone know about this Win32:Adware virus?? tried a general search about it, can't find it at all. The free Stinger from McAfee can't find anything wrong on the computer and when I select a deep search neither can the Avast, its just upon startup when I try to open a file/folder/explorer. that and I can't get my darn explorer off of the
www.search.com as its homepage, even after a reset etc, keeps going there after a restart/reboot.
So to all the brains out there, please help and old se4 vet whos down on his luck
OT: HELP!! Virus??
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