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Here is the log from the aswMBR scan. Hope desperately that you can help.
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aswMBR version 0.9.8.977 Copyright(c) 2011 AVAST Software
Run date: 2011-07-27 09:58:12
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09:58:12.329 OS Version: Windows 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
09:58:12.329 Number of processors: 2 586 0x1706
09:58:12.329 ComputerName: DZIGA-PC UserName: Dziga
09:58:14.170 Initialize success
09:58:14.404 AVAST engine defs: 11072700
09:58:28.897 Disk 0 (boot) \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-1
09:58:28.897 Disk 0 Vendor: TOSHIBA_ LV01 Size: 305245MB BusType: 3
09:58:28.943 Disk 0 MBR read successfully
09:58:28.943 Disk 0 MBR scan
09:58:28.943 Disk 0 Windows VISTA default MBR code
09:58:28.959 Disk 0 scanning sectors +625141760
09:58:29.053 Disk 0 scanning C:\Windows\system32\drivers
09:58:38.054 Service scanning
09:58:39.614 Service sptd C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\sptd.sys **LOCKED** 32
09:58:40.207 Modules scanning
09:58:55.573 Disk 0 trace - called modules:
09:58:55.604 ntkrnlpa.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys iaStor.sys spbu.sys hal.dll >>UNKNOWN [0x876e3938]<<
09:58:55.604 1 nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0x88ee9ac8]
09:58:55.619 3 CLASSPNP.SYS[8c50a8b3] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-1[0x877de028]
09:58:56.399 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows
09:58:59.644 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows\system32
10:00:31.450 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows\system32\drivers
10:00:40.904 AVAST engine scan C:\Users\Dziga
10:05:49.768 AVAST engine scan C:\ProgramData
10:08:55.174 Scan finished successfully
10:09:28.621 Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\Dziga\Desktop\MBR.dat"
10:09:28.621 The log file has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\Dziga\Desktop\aswMBR_LOG.txt"