Blind trust in a piece of software that invades your system to protect it from other pieces of software that do pretty much the same? I wouldn't trust them so much!... Wait! I don't!
And yes, get rid of IE (stop using it) I had Smithfraud.C infiltrate from one session of IE, took me days to root it out and yesterday I used IETab in Firefox (had to use the IE engine) and guess what? This morning IT REAPPEARED! Through avast! AdAware and SpyBot S&D! (all newest updates). Lucky I intercepted the thing manually.:P
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor