I have used Avast successfully for about a year now (I think it's the BEST!). I have also not had any conflicts with Kerio firewall (I read something about this recently). My question is: When I was given this 5 year old HP Pavilion from my sister, it was full of nasties. I mean pop-up after pop-up. It took me 6 months and several programs to get things under control. Recently I did a complete system recovery and as soon as my computer booted up, I started getting pop-ups again. I have also noticed that when I do a virus scan, it does not (or is not allowed) to scan the recovery files on my recovery partition. I need to do a sys. recovery again soon. Is there any way to scan those files and head off the nasties in my recovery files? I can't access those files except to burn them to CD. Any suggestions?