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Hope you ran Avast boot scan which is the deepest possible scan since no services at all are running where viruses can hide.
Next, running Spybot in Safe Mode (after updating first) will pretty much give you a clean bill of health. Spybot can get at infections hiding in memory when run in Safe Mode.
Next I would run a Repair Install which keeps all files, programs and settings in place while reinstalling the OS. Only botched settings could then continue the problem and even those might be reset by the Repair. It will need to be reactivated afterward at Computer>Properties link.
A Repair Install is the last resort before Clean Reinstall, right after running sfc /scannow to check System File integrity.
Last edited by gregrocker; 07 Mar 2010 at 23:47.