Hello DavidR,
Thank you for the quick reply. I will try what you said but there are a few problems. I will be as detailed as possible in my explanation.
So, you gave me a great way of seeing the hidden files on my computer. However, I presume you first oppened a Folder which you knew that it had hidden files and then you did the proceeder shown in your picture. My problem is this. When I access the D: partition all I see is a small icon shaped like a golden lock. when I double click on it it opens up only to show me a message along the lines that it is a recovery partition and that any modification brought to it will have negative affects on my computer. Not word for word but pretty much that's what it says. There are no folders or any buttons in this window which will allow me to see it's contents.
Another thing which I find weird (Well to be expected), is that usually if you go into the Start menu and start typing D:\i386\Apps\App000179 you should be given a link to the file. That's how I find most of my hidden files (these files are always in C: and by most I mean the folder setting file that gives certain folder icons a groovy design... not relevant in this case). But I am not given that link.
You say:
"Some google search results on this file,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=BAE.dll, do any of them ring any bells, like do you have a Dell, etc. e.g. trying to find a legitimate reason it would be there."
Well the computer is an E-machines which came with Google bar Pre-installed.
What is not mentioned in my previous post where I gave the log of infected files found during the boot scan is that and this might help is that When I got the computer I un-installed Google Task Bar from it using the Add/remove software. However, even if the de-installation went well there was still the folder C:\google left on my computer. I left it there mostly because I forgot to remove it. Now getting back, before rebooting and doing a boot scan, Avast found the file C:\google\bae.dll to be infected with Win32:Adware-gen. This was before the boot scan and since the file was on C: in the google Folder which I did not care about I sent it to the Virus chest (precaution... I learned the hard way not to delete .dll files or update them before double checking what they do... Win95... bad experience with some installs).
N.B. the file bae.dll from C:\gooogle is not spelled the same way as BAE.dll from D:\i386\Apps\App000179. That's to say i made sure my spelling is correct. I'm not certain if capitalizing the letters would mean that the two are different.
Thanks again for the help.