Hi Lou-
Short follow-up to my previous post.
If you need more detail let me know and I can assemble some screen shots, but that will take a few hours to put together.
Thank you for the detailed instructions!
I ran in to a problem but I think I have the issue resolved, let me know what you think.
I put a copy of the clean file on my sd card and also on my phone, I used the xp cd to
boot into recovery mode, got to the windows system 32 directory and I renamed the
file to ws2_32.bad.
This is where I had my problem, from recovery mode, the computer would not fine
my sd card or my phone. Now I know for sure that my sd card slot is E: and my phone
comes up as H: It couldn't see the h drive and and when I went to the e drive and did
a dir the ws2_32.dll file wasn't there, there were about 10 files that I didn't reconize and they
were all old. Even when I popped the sd card out, I was getting the same dir. tried to copy the
file anyway but of course it didn't work.
Here is what I did, let me know if you think it's ok.
First I renamed the file back to ws2_32.dll so I could boot up my computer again without
the xp cd. It came up with the same errors along with no internet. I put a copy of the
ws2_32.dll file from my sd card to my desktop, then I went into my computer,windows,system32.
I found the ws2_32.dll file in there and renamed it to ws2_32.bad. then I copied the good file
from my desktop into the system32 dir then I re-booted.
Everything came up fine, no errors and I had my internet connection, first thing I did was run the scan again,
I got the warning from avast again but this time it let me move the 3 files to the chest. At the end of the scan
it said successful, 3 files moved to the chest. one was the ws2_32.bad file that I renamed.
I did the scan again and it came up clean, been running all night and it seems ok.
Thanks again to you and everyone else for all the help!
Lou