Just had more problems with my computer and my avast! Antivirus scanner packed in, i lost a whole load of program files, including avast! itself, just had to re-download, now im stuck with my 60 day trial. IE wouldnt load, nor My Computer, i kept getting errors such as "ActiveX could conflict with this environment - would you like to continue without this component running?" press Yes or No and Windows keeps crashing.

Seems i had some malicious virus that had got into my Resident scanner, hiding from the actual avast! program

Now i lost a whole load of programs and other stuff, and now when ever i load windows avast! Antivirus is erroring and crashing the system. I again can no longer access IE, My Control and i cant even access the Control Panel to remove the crap. Ive been in the registry - the only thing that is working to seek the locations and remove them. Also tried removing the class ID and ActiveX references from the registry - succesfull, but with no change. AOL doesnt even work, im replying on someone's computer here.

All im after now is a quick alternative to AntiVirus protection - FREE which runs in the background all the time (to pick up opened apps etc).

And finally, does anybody know how to Un-install a program if you cant access the Control Panel, My Computer or Explorer?!

Thanks for the help