On a scale of 1/10, I'm probably a novice in computer literacy, and I'm confused.
I ran a scan because my quick start icons disappeared from taskbar and the scan revealed 3 viruses;
Win95:Matyas
Win32:ctx (appears to be in two separate files).
I wasn't able to repair, thus sent to quarantine. Reran the scan with an indication of another Win32:ctx virus, tried to repair again and received a notice that an error occurred during processing. I then noticed on that sheet that it had 347 lines listed, and all after the first line show "unable to scan".
My confusion lays with the fact that I thought Avast would not allow my system to be hit with a virus or if one slipped by, then I would have thought it could be repaired.
What needs to be done to rid my system of these, and just as importantly, protect my system against a future virus ?