Hi Pondus / Datadude,
I finally have it working, rushing around after finding out how to exclude asc.exe file, I had gone to a 3rd party IBM site to download a driver that was not compatable with the machine! Silly me! I was then checking options on laptop and found ThinkPad Software Installer and used this to replace the driver I had put in place by mistake and all now seems well.
My only remaining problem would be if what if something like that happens again? Should I not be so hasty to act on Avasts actions? Hopefully now that I have followed instructions this wont happen but you never now!?
Thanks all for your quick responses, yesterday thought I was looking at something really really bad and something that may hit me in the poket hard!
Also datadude sorry for hijacking your thread, is good to know that other people experience smilar problems but there are people out there who have the answers to fix.
Thanks again