Oh goody! virus! I'm so excited.

[GypsyElder]

Problem 1: I think my hardrive/disk is is on it's was to retirement. I'm not 100, but my laptop is making grinding noises. The sound has gotten slightly louder than before and it's more of an electronic sounding buzz. I'm guessing it could also be my fan as well since my computer did make a LOUD buzzing sound one day and after my fan became weaker.

Other than the very faint grinding sound I don't really have any oddities except for my computer being a little slower. Internet takes longer to open and I was having small crashing issues before such as windows explorer and Firefox issues. I did scanned for this before in normal and safe mode and got nada.

In any case I could care less if this computer blows out since I'm not going to spend money to fix it if something happens. I'll just end up buying a new one since this laptop was cheap to begin with.

Problem 2: What IS annoying is that I turned on my computer this morning> opened Google> typed in mediafire dot com( in an attempt to upload some of my save files for back up, knowing my computer might explode any min.) and bam my Avast goes off. So I assume, "well duh it's file sharing site; it might have something going on right now" note: I didn't log in to anything. . So I leave it alone and go to FB and bambam Avast goes off again on the home page.

I opened Ad aware to run a smart scan and I found "win. 32 online gaming troj. Go figure.

I got rid of it through that, restarted, and now I'm running a full scan. While this was running, I was laying down and noticed that an Adaware web page was opening up on my browser and when it opened Avast blocked a threat again. Now I may have accidentally hit the help icon at the bottom of the scan window, since I did slightly hit the touch pad while I was trying to un screensave my computer just before it opened. I'm really more concerned with the fact that Avast still went off.

The only thing that came to mind was that Google redirect virus but idk enough about it. When the scan is complete I might just completely reinstall the OS again if it doesn't die in the process. I'm not sure what's best though.

Suggestions?/ Ideas?

[LocoColt04]

I believe there's a virus within Avast itself.

My girlfriend and three other friends ALL had the exact same issue in any given web browser... go to a webpage, and Avast flips its shit. I uninstalled it from her computer, installed AVG, ran a scan, and found absolutely nothing wrong with her system.

I would find an alternative to Avast, even if only temporarily.

[Azuteor]

I have had that Google redirect virus for a long time now using Firefox. About several weeks ago, I got redirected to a site that gave me a pretty annoying virus where it would shut down my internet browsers and open up a window pretending to be a legitimate anti-virus program. It was called Vista Virus Scanner 2010. The program tried to convince me to buy the complete version in order to remove the infections, but I didn't fall for it. The annoying part about this virus is that it keeps you from running .exe files. I was able to find the file that opens up the fake scanner using task manager and right-clicking on the application, clicked "go to process," clicked "open file location," turning off hide all files function, and finally deleting it that way. I was still unable to open up .exe files so I went and fixed it by getting a file association fix for .exe files. After that, I used Kaspersky to clear any viruses I may still have.

In your case, I don't think you're dealing with the Google redirect virus, but at least you know what it is and know one way to deal with. I would imagine that since you are using two anti-virus programs on a computer, it would result with weird errors and false positive detections. Here you go: Never install two AV programs.

[GypsyElder]

Yeah I figured it might be Avast itself so I uninstalled it yesterday. My computer is fine now ^_^; thanks! at least I know now.

@ Azu: I normally keep one active running AV and Malwarebytes since it's manual, so technically I only have one active running AV. The only reason I had Adaware for that short period of time was because I did suspect something was up with Avast since it didn't pick up that Trojan -_- Nor did Malwarebytes.

[SuperSabin]

Gypsy, you should use Microsoft Security Essentials. Its a really reliable security program and you can find a free version to use. Avast uses a lot of RAM which causes the slowdowns on your computer. Check the ratings on it and see if its something you'll want to use, I, myself, recommend it.

Just giving in my input.