Hi oma.
Well, I had something like this take out a laptop if you have malwarebytes try running that.
Otherwise its probably time to reformat, a virus did simular things to my system but never found the little begger.
A reformat will fix everything in any case.
In the case of the power going on by itself, you may have it set in the bios.
This happened  in my old 386 days, it happened just before my powermodule, took a major dump and exploded not sure if this helps you though.

Save reformatting for the last option, sinse you'll also have to reinstall everything and get new game keys (crashmaster is rather fond of reformatting I believe).

First this does sound like a virus especially with the subscription thing. I suggest you look at task manager and see what's running and if you can see anything odd going on, particularly at startup. Also, make sure your avast is uptodate and maybe as suggested try another antivirus.

The power thing could be connected or not, I'd suggest checking your outlook and power settings, perhaps restoring at least those to defaults.

I'd also recommend perhaps looking at avg pc tuneup from  http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-pctuneup

This does a number of useful tasks for your machine, including registry cleaning and disk difragging, but here I'm specifically thinking of it's startup manager, which lets you see just what processes are running at windows startup and disable or remove them.

if a virus is doing dodgy things and asking for a subscription this might be the reason.

Hth.

avast has a dialog similar to what you write but it doesn't have  % symbles .

Hi SHaun,
No offense, but if all your comptuer advice amounts to is "try something that might work but might not, then reformat", do us all a favor and keep it to yourself.

Hey all.
I have a asus machine, as I failed to mention.
lol. I'll try PC tuneup first then something, er, I don't know.

Asus (not sure if it's spelled exactly like that) does in deed exist, although I can't tell you much more about it. As far as I know (I might be wrong though as I've never had an Asus laptop myself or known anyone owning one too closely), they are relatively well known as well but don't reach the high league of Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, etc. Probably something likeAcer or Fujitsu Siemens. I believe they became better known just recently, with the huge boom of netbooks and subnotebooks.
Lukas

I'm glad it works with jaws.

As I said I've not come across asus before, but then again my last few laptops have all been toshiba and that's probably a make I'd go with for reliability, so haven't investigated too many other makes beyond the obviously advertized ones like hp, del etc.

I've heard of packard bell, but never tried their machines. As I said I've always had toshiba's and those have gone very well, accept for the acer.

In fact my old laptop which was six years old is stil working, the only reason i got a new one is the headphone sockit on the old one no longer works, but the main operating system and everything else is fine, and indeed my mum is now using it.

My brother even has a toshiba which is now 12 years old, and stil in ful working order :d.