I have a standalone PC with Windows ME, McAfee Personal Firewall, Spyware Guard, SpywareBlaster, and Spybot. I downloaded and then updated Avast version 4.1 Home Edition on Nov. 30. My 40 gb hard drive has 32 gb of stuff, and when I looked about a year ago I had 36,000 files, but Avast says I have a lot more. I did a thorough scan of nonarchive files (115,000 files) and it listed 15 lines infected. Should I have first disabled the spyware programs? Rebuild didn't work, so I deleted them. Then I realized I needed to generate a VRDB for rebuild to work in the future, so I did so. Then I did a thorough scan including archive files (498,000 files) and it showed a list of 1868 lines, of which 20 had viruses. Almost all the rest said "Unable to scan. Archive is password protected." I tried to delete a line for a file in Windows/All Users/Application Data/Spybot Search & Destroy/Recovery but it froze up. (Most of the lines were unrelated to the spyware programs.) So I clicked on cancel, but the Processing Results box is still on my screen. I'll keep the screen up for awhile in case you answer soon. Should I have deleted the lines with viruses and not touched the password-protected lines? Should I now click Close, and if that won't work, control alternate delete, and lose the scan results frozen on the screen? (It's okay if I must. Each scan only took 1 hour and some minutes.) Thanks for your help.
