As stated on other posts dllhost.exe shows being infected by Avast as malware. Running a full scan on Avast and Malwarebytes does not find anything.
I reformatted the drive and did a clean 64 install from a CD. Did the initial updates and watched the dllhost size in Task manager/ Processes. It is listed as dllhost.exe*32 at around 2.5M
I installed all the updates except the .NET and malicious software removal tool. All was good. then updated the rest of the files. During all updates Avast was running. After the last set of updates the virus reappeared. Chatted with MS and they suggested running sfc /scannow. The system32 scan did not find anything. I changed to sysWOW64 and tried to run sfc /scannow and go an error message 'Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service'.
Next MS wanted $ and since this is not my laptop (Compaq CQ56) I was not going to pay without approval.
So I am at a stop. Just as a thought, could the Restore Image be infected also so it re-infects the working OS even after a format of the OS drive?
Any help would be great.
Regards
I reformatted the drive and did a clean 64 install from a CD. Did the initial updates and watched the dllhost size in Task manager/ Processes. It is listed as dllhost.exe*32 at around 2.5M
I installed all the updates except the .NET and malicious software removal tool. All was good. then updated the rest of the files. During all updates Avast was running. After the last set of updates the virus reappeared. Chatted with MS and they suggested running sfc /scannow. The system32 scan did not find anything. I changed to sysWOW64 and tried to run sfc /scannow and go an error message 'Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service'.
Next MS wanted $ and since this is not my laptop (Compaq CQ56) I was not going to pay without approval.
So I am at a stop. Just as a thought, could the Restore Image be infected also so it re-infects the working OS even after a format of the OS drive?
Any help would be great.
Regards
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