Hi, first post here, hope you can help.
I've been using Avast for a while and i've had no problems with it so far (brilliant AV). I booted up my computer today and I noticed something..strange. My Tasmanager wouldn't display the processes coreectly, it shows all the things being run but it doesn't have any of the names next to it ( like administrator, system, local service etc). The System idol process was running at 99 CPU.
At first I though it was a registry issue because I restarted and got stuck on the "saving your settings" screen, I had a look at the event log and it said - "Windows cannot unload your classes registry file - it is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. " . No idea what that means at all.
At this point I ran CHKDSK to check everything - didn't come up with any problems so I started looking for something more malicious and bingo. Avast found "Threat: Win32:Malware gen" . Again I have no idea what this is and i'm hoping you could help me. Everytime I try to move it to chest ro repair it the Av program freezes and I have to restart the computer to get ti to respond again. This was located in C:WINDOWS/system32/HPZim12.exe and another at C:WINDOWS/system32/spool/drivers/w32x86/3/HPZIM12.EXE. I have a HP printer installed but should the files for it really be located there?
I'm running Windows XP Proffesional SP3 with Avast version 5.