Computer crashed, viruses cant be deleted

Viruses and worms
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Hello,

I was transferring 40 GB of video files to a flash drive the other day and my computer crashed. I figured the file was just to large, so after the computer rebooted I tried to transfer one file at a time starting with a 2 GB file. The computer crashed again and wouldn’t reboot. The lights on the power supply wouldn’t even light up, and flicking the switch or changing power cables from my monitor had no effect. I figured there must have been some short and I wasn’t able to get to it till this morning.

I was planning on taking out the PSU and testing it to see if that was the problem, but the computer randomly booted up again. This time I ran my virus scan quickly and received a notification of 20 infected files from avast. The log says: “Threat: Rootkit: hidden file”

Avast had trouble deleting them though. How do I make sure my computer is safe and that the viruses are gone? Trying to delete the files gave errors like, “Error: the system cannot find the file specified (2)” or “Error: Access is denied (5)”

Now scanning with avast returns,“No virus found.” which seems odd considering it had trouble deleting them.

I followed some of the diagnostic steps given here, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

the logs are posted below and I can post more screen shots of my avast logs.

any help would be appreciated thanks!

-skaiking

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Here are the screen shots of the scan log.

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Here is with the malware names more visible.

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restart and scan again…do you still get same result?

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The scan now says no threat detected. Does this mean its gone or in hiding?

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no infection… just something that happens now and then…not 100% sure but seems to have to do with windows updates…

anyway, Essexboy is notified and will check your logs when he arrive here later today :wink:

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The logs look good. for some reason avast has a penchant for finding rootkits in that folder after updates