Te only way I could boot the computer without this coming up was to boot without the computer connected to the internet. When I started up again there was a dialogue box with the message "Avast is installing - do not urn off your computer" Knowing the download had not completed when I shut down, I immediately disconnected and shut down again. A short way into the download my screen glitched and a Windows dialogue box came up with the message "Windows has detected a network change" I immediately disconnected from the net and shut down the computer. I began downloading Avast from the website. one of the "experts" I found suggested I download Malwarebytes, Superantispyware (which I was already using along with AVG) Spybot Search& Destroy, Spyhunter and Avast and run each of them in turn in safe mode to detect and remove any potential treats. I started my computer in safe mode and searched for and found the file and deleted it. When this had come up several times I decided to go hunting for it. the AVG notification advised it had quarantined the file winit.exe because it was infected with a "backdoor32-something or other" virus. I have a problem where I suspected my computer had a worm called "winit.exe" (as opposed to wininit.exe which is a MS program as I understand it) this was detected several times by AVG but never by Malwarebytes.
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