Is this normal or does my AVG anitivirus have a virus? [closed]

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Published on 2012-09-21T22:01:51Z Indexed on 2012/09/25 15:40 UTC
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Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?

[Note: This is not a duplicate and should not be closed as a duplicate as this is nothing like the other question. I am not asking if I have a virus, nor am I asking "what do I do now". I know that I have a virus and I know what to do. However, I am asking if these are normal AVG ads or if it has been taken over.]

My Windows XP PC started acting strange and I am right now actually in Linux running off of a USB drive. I am running Avast under Linux and it has discovered some viruses on my XP drive.

Some of the strange things happening in XP were:

I could not get to Google.com
My Hosts file was set to hidden and read only
My Hosts file had an entry of ::1
And AVG had ads in it I've never seen before. Maybe it is normal but I Binged for AVG anti-virus and become.com but found no information. (The red lines and question mark are by me) Any thoughts?

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