I tried to open Avast several times over the last week to run a virus scan, but it has disappeared from my taskbar and when I click on the shortcut, it gives me the hourglass and nothing happens. Either that, or I get a startup message that says "wait please. Testing memory and startup items" and then dissappears. Should I reinstall? Did I do something wrong? Do I need to register something? I've used this program probably three or four times in the last few months with no problems.
also, I seem to be infected with a particularly nasty virus of some sort that calls itself Spylocked 4.0. I tried to uninstall it, but it still gives me phony warnings and redirects my webpages on occasion. Spyhunter isn't free and I'm reluctant to do a manual removal. Any assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated!
