I have no idea what malware/viruses Avast found...all I know is that when I turned on the computer this morning, it automatically did a boot scan. At the end I hit ESC to exit from it not really knowing how to proceed (didn't want to foul anything up) and when Windows 8 rebooted and came to the home screen, only a few standard icons were there...like it had been set back to the factory defaults. I've been digging into the files on the computer, and my stuff is there, but previous programs are not loading properly with the data that had been stored over time, and everything has been re-arranged. Just trying to get my home screen and applications back to normal, so that when I open/launch an application, the programs load all of their files and things function properly. Does that make sense.