My avast seems to have gone stir crazy. It has been for the past hour apparently detecting trojans and malware threats and deleting/moving hundreds of files, some of which I am sure it is not supposed to be moving! I now can't open adobe acrobat, tray applications, picture manager and a number of other programs. Reinstallation of these programs does not work - I get told there are missing files or installation is already running. I am getting repeated warning messages from these programs which will not go from my screen.
I have run Super antispyware and Spybot search and destroy and Malwarebytes anti malware with no obvious results
I am wondering if I have some sort of virus which has attached itself to avast to make it do this. I went briefly into firefox earlier ( I normally use Google Chrome) and this was when the problems started. I operate Windows XP
I tried copying the virus chest list from avast but it wont let me. The viruses it is alleging are VBS:ExeDropper.gen and Win32:Ramnit-C
Please let me know if you need any further information and advise me of how I can access this
Thank you in advance for any assistance you may be able to offer