hopefully none of these details will change much of the situation but i forgot to mention
that it is an intel mac, running both OSX and XP, the XP side has no internet connection
but from time to time i do download little programs on the mac side, copy them over and install
them in the windows side.... usually little demo graphic programs, etc etc. so if i do in fact
have ad or mal ware it has probably come from one of those. that is also the reason i decided to
avast in the first place, just to give the system a once over.
also when i initially installed avast the first time, i set a boot time scan, whhich i ended up
cancelling half way through because i ran out of time and had to go to work.
i dont know if that would have had any effect, but that was when all the issues started.
i think the uninstaller did work, in the sense that i no longer have any traces of avast
on my computer, and im not blaming avast for the issues im having, but unfortunately
whatever chain of events took place from installing avast the other day have not been
"undone" by the uninstallation. i could cook and eat a meal in the time it takes windows
to log on or off.
i have also made another discovery, in addition to my taskbar and tablet driver being missing
i can no longer move the icons on my desktop, or drag and drop contents of a zip file.i installed and ran ad-ware se and AVG
avg didnt want to complete installation and hung trying to execute guard.exe, so i killed the process
and it seemed ok after that
avg found a few things:
IntCodec,
NewDotNet,
Backdoor.RBot.bry,
Download.small
adware.generic
quarantined those, reinstalled my tablet drivers and rebooted....
still the same problems
well at least ive gotten rid of those few things....
any other ideas?
thanks again for your help
edit: my pen tablet driver is gone AGAIN. (?)