I never got through the full scan because like I said, it shut my computer down unexpectedly and upon restart the computer started to loop over and over again into startup. XP won't let me login. It acts like it will at startup but then never does and starts the process in a loop all over again. That is why I started it in Safemode and now that I'm in, I can't use Avast or Malwarebytes or even microsoft updates. Am I missing something about using safemode? I'll look at your links you gave me but I'm not sure I know what YOUR talking about. I am no computer pro. I know very little, really. Thanks for your quick response!