It looks like whatever you had is gone. From your description it seems like it was a possible homepage hijacking. You can guard against this with SAS. Open SAS, click the prefence button, click the Hijack protection tab. Ensure your homepage is in the box and check both boxes.
Check the avast log for the reason why the files can't be scanned. You should be able to see the file name and path along with the reason. Avast can't scan other security program's quaratined files. That message will be "password protected"
Open avast, from the menu, select last scan results.
The same holds true for SAS, though I've never seen anything in the logs. It may appear on the screen during a scan but I've never whatched it scan.
So, if no problems, you can clean up and update.
* Please download
OTMoveIt2 by OldTimer.Open OTMOVEIT2 then click the Clean Up button. You may get prompted by your firewall that OTMoveIt wants to contact the internet - allow this. A cleanup.txt will be downloaded, a message dialog will ask you if you want to proceed with the cleanup process, click Yes. This will delete all the tools you have downloaded plus itself.
* Create a new restore point
You must be logged on to an administrator account
Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore.
Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.
In the text box labeled Restore Point Description, type a name for this restore point , click create
* Remove old restore points
- Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - system tools. Launch the Disk Cleanup tool and let it run. When it finishes a box with tabs will appear, select the more options tab. On this tab you will find a section for System Restore. If you press the Clean Up button for that section, Windows will delete all restore points except for the most recent one.
* Open an Internet Explorer (only) window and go to
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp > Scroll down to "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 5...allows end-users to run Java applications".
Click the download button on the right.
> If Information Bar pop-ups up, right-click on it and say it's OK to display the blocked content.
You do not have to install the Java Web Start ActiveX Control Accept the license agreement > Click on Windows (XP,Vista, .etc) Offline Installation, Multi-language and Save the file jre-6u5-windows-i586-p.exe to your desktop;
do not Run it. Do not install it yet. When the download is complete, Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs:
Uninstall anything that says Sun Java, Java JRE, or similar.
Close Add/Remove Programs.
In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Java <=this folder, if found. Delete any subfolders it may contain.
Do NOT delete C:\Program Files\JavaVM <=this folder, if found!
Reboot your computer.
Double-click on the saved file to install the update.
Delete the downloaded installation file after completing the above procedure and reboot if not prompted to do so.
