Hello, I apologize if there is a thread for this already; however, I have encountered what may be a virus. I am running the Avast Home Version 4.8, which I got free from the website. I use a Windows Vista Laptop made by Red Barn Computers. It is a shared computer with four users on it. This computer has never had a virus before.
Just about 20 minutes ago, I was on VampireFreaks.com. I navigated to the pictures of the month page, and then Avast notified me of a detected virus.
I immediately felt my heart pound in my chest because I know I'm DEAD if I get a virus on this computer (my parents will kill me, seriously).
I then deleted my cookies and site history, and rebooted to make sure the message wouldn't come up when the computer turned on. It didn't. This caused me a little stress, so I navigated to this forum (which I just 5 minutes ago found) to see how to handle this. I took the advice in the sticky and re-navigated to the page, but the message didn't come back up. Avast has so far not found anything infected in the web sheild, where it had found the infection previously. I'm relieved, but also worried. I'm not sure if there is a virus or not. If there is, how do I put the 'file' in the 'chest' if the notification was spurred by a web page? Also, should I wait for Avast to scan for a while to see if it finds the virus again?
I apologize for being annoying, I just don't want to find out next month when my parents' PIN gets stolen that the virus was there after all.
P.S. How do you destroy viruses with avast? Isn't there a button or something?