DavidR
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What is your operating system, is it up to date ?
If avast alerted immediately you tried to run the infected file, it should have blocked any action by the virus. avast intercepts the execution and first scan the file, if infected, it will stop it from running so hopefully you won’t be infected by the virus.
What you have to do is exercise some control and don’t open attachments from unsolicited email, spam or other wise and especially an .exe file.
Based on your previous action (of running a suspect .exe file) I suspect you will also have other malware on your system.
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode.
- Ewido, a.k.a. avg anti-spyware If using winXP. or a-Squared free if using win98/ME.
Also check out this link to this post in particular and the rest of the topic in general http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24707.msg202477#msg202477.
Also http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24707.msg202530#msg202530