A couple of days ago I installed the latest version of Avast. I ran a thorough check and it found umpteen rootkit hidden files, e.g. windows/system32/spoolsv.exe and /spoolss.dll, etc. I paniced of course, always good in a crisis. I opted to delete the files, the system reloaded, ran the boot version and loaded again. A run of Avast still found the rootkit hidden files.
Following this I ran several standalone rootkit finders and they were all clear. I could not get rid of the Avast warning. It was then I decided to prime down an August image of my system. This was successful, so I updated Avast and ran a thorough scan....Oh NO! I still got rootkit files. I tried a few more standalone finder programs to no avail.
I deleted Avast and install the free version of AVG. Clean as a whistle, no nasty files found. I then reinstalled an older version of Avast (1229) and it was all sweetness and light.
Now I don't know whether the new version is telling the truth and I do have rootkit files and the old version misses them, or it the new Avast is telling me a few porkies.
Please help!