ok so right now i am trying to revive my brothers computer, which was INFECTED up the wazoo. i already did the boot cleaning thing, and got most of the trojans outta there, but i am still getting issues. first when i start up Windows (xp) i get a baloon telling me that i have no antivirus installed, even though Avast is obviously there and installed. another problem i am facing is the cross circle thingy by the Avast logo, which i don't really know what it means but i knnow its not good. my final problem is that i can send any virus's to the chest. i get the error: "Virus chest server is not running. RPC communication failed." so i looked that up ad got a couple hits here, but nothing really explained it clearly to me. i recently uninstalled AVG, and it was hardly functioning, meaning it didn't want to scan anything. so ya thats my beef, please help me! it would be a shame to have to format after all the work i've done!!! and thanks.