Hi, I couldn't get to the forum for a bit. (micky77 is very knowledgeable about malware.)
Lost at standard shield: Here's a step by step.
- left click the system tray icon (Avast)
- from the gui that opens, select "standard shield", then clcik on "customize", go to the "advanced" tab.
-Select "add", type the path in to be excluded, if you follow micky's suggestion it will be C:\Suspect.
-Move the file from the chest to that folder.
-Open
www.virustotal.org , select upload a file, upload the file from this folder. Once analysis is complete, (it will take a minute or 5) copy the address url, post it back here.
-You may well have to disable NIS while carrying out these actions. (I still think you should uninstall it, run the removal tool, repair Avast, and then check the Vista firewall is on. That can be done any time, but if it were me, I'd do it sooner rather than later. Prevent interference.)