and It only happens when the aol tray icon fails to load on startup. Which ironically happens lately now. When the aol icon appears next to the clock, it does not say a rootkit was found.
Otherwise, the new version works fine. I'm not sure if it's a false positive, and i cant have it automatically send a analysis to avast because i have dialup. It comes up with a window that says rootkit found, and then thats as much as (the path in the subject) that i could remember. It also says on the bottom of the window, a checkmarked box to send to avast for analysis. I have dial up though, so when i click ignore once, (I don't check the ignore permanently) I tried going into the avast log to see if it would be in there so that i could send to avast for analysis. It wasn't in the avast log. I have done a full boot scan and updated avast completely with latest updates and i am wondering if it is a false positive?
I think so because aol is perfectly safe.
I have scanned with all my antispyware apps and i am clean also according to hijack this.
Also, i would like to mention when i told avast to scan and i clicked run in background, after 30 minutes of scanning, i went to restore the window and avast scanner wouldn't restore, even after a hour of waiting for the window to restore. It froze. I had to restart my system. As long as I do not click go to background while the scan is running, and leave it alone for awhile, it will not freeze. If i just minimize it, it works fine.
So, i do not know what is up. Any help would be appreciated.
I do not use any skins in avast. I use the really simple interface. I have teatimer sd spybot resident running, windows defender, and avast in the background. I don't know if that helps, but i thought i would mention that. I run windows XP sp2 on a 2.50ghz processor with 760 mb of system ram. Thanks.