Originally Posted by
Bushfiva
Keef, you might get slightly more targeted help if you'd mentioned the OS and the virus you believe you got rid of: this sounds like Spyware Protect.
True!
The OS is Windows XP Professional. Not sure which virus it was: Googling beforehand suggested that the DHL "Your shipment" e-mail usually carries Bredolab trojan, but other options were also suggested.
AVG (when I turned it back on) said it had found file0.exe which it moved to the virus vault, and a rootkit trojan (not named).
I ran an XP install-fix which did a pretty thorough reinstall of a fair proportion of the operating system, and AVG and Avast didn't report anything untoward at startup - I removed AVG 8.5 and installed the latest Avast.