Faulty or bogus security alert

Hi All,

running XP sp3 on Dell dimension 9100 on my home network with 3 other machines all with AVG. All uptodate.

The following problem only seems to affect this one machine (the most used one):

When I click on my "My Documents" destop shortcut I am randomly blocked from proceeding with a Security Alert stating:"Your current security settings do not allow this action".

I can work around by accessing the folder through My Computer and after I reboot the Security Alert disappears and doesn't show up for weeks, then, randomly it appears again.

The only non-standard thing about my system is that I have moved My Documents to a dedicated partition and configured the shortcut to point there... which it usually does with no problem.

Coincidentally (or perhaps not so coincidental? I don't know) I am recieving constant cookies from atdmt which I delete every time I get the AVG warning. But they come back usually the next day or even later the same day. (I use Firefox)

Otherwise the beast seems to be working quite well.

Any suggestions?
thanks in advance. Dins

 

The first thing I would recommend is heading over to the Malware Forum and completing all the steps in the Read and Run Me First thread (including posting your logs) to ensure the machine is clean.