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I’ve Solved the problem for now , but i really don’t believe it is a false alarm , the file w32:trojan-gen was found hiding in my boot sector for one , in the last few months it wreaked havoc on my computer , files were corrupting left and right , cdrw or dvdrw would work or sometimes wouldn’t work files were spontaneously corrupting, entire programs would disappear etc… it was a nightmare , i tried every virus scanner out there, nothing picked this up , then i tried avast and like i said i was checking out the prog and quite by accident ran a boot scan and there it was , i remember it gave me a choice of options and i just deleted, (this was a fresh install hadn’t been on the net yet, only had factory drivers installed and avast) I haven’t had a prob since , today it again started to re-boot spontaneously , but i found the prob and fixed it. but i still say w32:trojan-gen is not a false alarm getting rid of it seemed to work for me at least. and a fresh install didn’t seem to stop it , i had totally formatted the drive and only got rid of it once i actually found and deleted it . Thanks for all the help tho , so far so good 