

Reading through various forums, both viruses may be false positives. I also ran Avast which found VBS: Malware generic, that I also quarantined. I ran MBAM which found hijack.host, which I quarantined. A quick browse pointed to a malware infection.

Internet Options would not open, not even using the inetcpl.cpl command. Thinking it was an issue linked to the firewall permission, I tried to open the internet option tab in control panel and - here is the problem. After a couple of reboots, it came online again and now it's working fine. It started when Secunia PSI asked to check my internet connection, was not able to connect to the update server and was unable to scan files. Since yesterday my system has started behaving weirdly. I am running a PC with Win Xp SP3 (32Bit) with Avast Free 17.8 as primary real-time AV, complemented by MBAE v45 and MBAM free 3.3.1 as an on-demand malware scanner.
