You have misread what I posted..

AVAST WAS completely DISABLED when I ran my SpyBot immunisation (check system then update) test. <--**

And I also ran with a restored original blank, default, Windows 7 host file.

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Repeated running of SpyBot Immunisation ALWAYS comes up with the same error message, so nothing is being fixed yet SpyBot always concludes with saying it is fixed.

Additionally, I always have Avast set everywhere to ASK and does not do ANYTHING automatically.