If it says you're okay, you most probably are.

Good luck.

and have him get malwarebytes and run it too. there are more detailed instructions in one of the pinned threads but hopefully he won't need to do all of it.

I always recommend malwarebytes as a Spyware add ware scanner

You can download it free with a two week trial and it is somewhere around $30 a year for three PC's.

Between the two of them you should be kept out of trouble.

I would not want to say he didn't get an infection but most of those are nothing more than pop-ups that are difficult to close.

Either way a scan with malwarebytes will more than likely clean up anything that got in. There is no perfect scanner that I am aware of but malwarebytes and security essentials do a pretty good job together and for a reasonable price. You can just chose to end the trial on the malwarebytes at the end of the two weeks and it becomes an on demand scanner. If you have the $30 to spend it is worth it to have it constantly monitoring the machine especially with someone new to the web.

and other than the strange spaz it has at random times I haven't ever had a problem. of course I rarely go anywhere odd so who knows what he did.

he did mention he had to reinstall flash the other day and I have no idea what that was about, maybe where he got the problem.

flash is the source of many infections there are also fake prompts for fake flash installs from some sites.