I found the info and will paste at the end of this post but the picture can be pretty big. salbwil just tell us what program you are using to resize and right click on the picture and click properties on the drop down menu and tell us what size it is. Here are the posting instructions from the webmaster at hearth.com: OK, so hereÂs the deal - your member photos (in your member profile) is limited to a small size - about 150 pixels (dots) square. The little Avatar next to your posts is limited to the same or maybe 100 each way..... Regular pictures, like in this forum, can be fairly large - almost full screen (1000 wide by 1000 high) and up to 200KB (200,000 bytes). But, many folks donÂt know the basics of email and web pics - IÂll try to explain. Pictures sent to the web and by email are best at what is called "screen resolution" meaning that they somewhat match the size od the dots on our monitors. For our purposes, this is aout 72 DPI (or dots per inch)..... What the average person needs is an "Image Management Program" and NOT the one that comes with Windows! If you are a PC user, download the free program called Picasa - This will organize and store all the photos on your disk and also allow you to export smaller copies (for web, etc.) and to even fix the photos up a bit! Apple users already have an image management program, iPhoto, which comes with every mac. To prepare web photos in iPhoto, simply select the photo or photos, go to Export (or it might say Share in newer versions) and when the dialog box comes up use the part that says "scale no bigger than" to select what you want the size of the exported photo to be. For purposes of this board, a photo with a width of 400-700 is ideal. Now, with Picasa, it is pretty much the same thing. Select the photo or photos and go to Export to Folder- the box shown in the picture below will come up and then you can select the picture size - say 480 wide as in this example. The other slider will compress the file size so the picture loads faster. In most cases, anything over 50% is good. If you want to learn more about this stuff, dig around on the links at: http://www.hearth.com/hcc/ - these are links from a course I teach at night school. If you are a user of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, use the "Image Size" dialog bx to convert your photo to 72 DPI and approx. 400-600 pixels wide (the height will work out automatically) - then use "Save for Web" and tryjpg "medium", file size should be really small. Of course, donÂt save changes to the original picture since you still want that big on your computer and for yourarhiving and storage.

This is the second Malwarebytes scan after I removed everything I could from the first scan results. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.35 Database version: 1939 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 04/03/2009 11:04:36 PM mbam-log-2009-04-03 (23-04-36).txt Scan type: Full Scan (C:\:) Objects scanned: 119355 Time elapsed: 47 minute(s), 4 second(s) Memory Processes Infected: 0 Memory Modules Infected: 0 Registry Keys Infected: 15 Registry Values Infected: 0 Registry Data Items Infected: 0 Folders Infected: 0 Files Infected: 8 Memory Processes Infected: (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Infected: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\acpi32 (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\acpi32 (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\amd64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\amd64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\amd64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\netsik (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netsik (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\nicsk32 (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nicsk32 (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\i386si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i386si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ati64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ati64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati64si (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\fips32cup (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. Registry Values Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Infected: (No malicious items detected) Folders Infected: (No malicious items detected) Files Infected: C:\System Volume Information\_restore"415790D9-BB81-41AF-9469-EEC2DB43FA43>\RP997\A0179839.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\acpi32.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\amd64si.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\netsik.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\nicsk32.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\fips32cup.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\i386si.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\ati64si.sys (Rootkit.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Hmm, I had not read the whole MS page but basically you only need to follow the first 2 instructions. I have never had to use those other instructions myself. Remember that if you get flustered just click the Cancel button to get out of where you are. There is nothing to be afraid of when using System File Checker. You It simply goes through your computer checking all the operating system files and replaces those which are corrupt or missing. The need for the CD is so it can get the needed files to install for you. The slight downside is that it takes the computer back to when your particular CD was created which means you will be behind on security updates and possibly a service pack. No big deal there either, you simply go to the windows update site and the computer grabs whatever it needs. You are doing nothing wrong. Who knows why those files went missing. Perhaps/probably it was due to the power outage. You can of course extract and install each of those files if you wish to avoid using SFC. Follow the instructions here to do that for each file. You do not have to do them all at one time. Try one, see how it goes then do others as you feel up to the task.

Well if you had success with Malwarebytes perhaps it is not necessary to run Superantispyware. If you would care to try then as you start the computer keep tapping the F8 button and a screen will appear with start up options. Select safe mode, everything will look totally different to the normal startup because only essential drivers have been allowed to start. My concern was the fact you mentioned AVG was not running properly. That is a good indicator of trouble. On reading the initial post a second time it appears you overcame that issue