thanks for the welcome!
i've tried running it that way through the command prompt as well as start>run, but it tells me windows can't find aswmbr.exe. i've made sure the program is on the desktop as well.
also, here is the log from the initial scan:
aswMBR version 0.9.9.1532 Copyright(c) 2011 AVAST Software
Run date: 2012-02-02 03:10:07
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03:10:07.756 OS Version: Windows x64 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
03:10:07.756 Number of processors: 4 586 0x402
03:10:07.757 ComputerName: SINGULARITY UserName: Nickocosmic
03:10:08.843 Initialize success
03:10:08.881 AVAST engine defs: 12020101
03:11:06.412 Disk 0 (boot) \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T1L0-6
03:11:06.414 Disk 0 Vendor: MAXTOR_STM3500320AS MX15 Size: 476940MB BusType: 3
03:11:06.428 Disk 0 MBR read successfully
03:11:06.430 Disk 0 MBR scan
03:11:06.432 Disk 0 Windows 7 default MBR code
03:11:06.442 Disk 0 Partition 1 80 (A) 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 476929 MB offset 63
03:11:06.474 Disk 0 Partition 2 00 17 Hidd HPFS/NTFS NTFS 10 MB offset 976752000
03:11:06.477 Disk 0 Partition 2 **INFECTED** MBR:Alureon-K [Rtk]
03:11:06.488 Service scanning
03:11:07.837 Modules scanning
03:11:07.846 Disk 0 trace - called modules:
03:11:07.864 ntoskrnl.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys ACPI.sys ataport.SYS pciide.sys PCIIDEX.SYS hal.dll atapi.sys
03:11:07.874 1 nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0xfffffa8006273060]
03:11:07.879 3 CLASSPNP.SYS[fffff8800196f43f] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> [0xfffffa8005328880]
03:11:07.883 5 ACPI.sys[fffff88000f017a1] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T1L0-6[0xfffffa8005c0b680]
03:11:09.378 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows
03:11:15.087 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows\system32
03:13:01.748 AVAST engine scan C:\Windows\system32\drivers
03:13:10.462 AVAST engine scan C:\Users\Nickocosmic
03:14:45.380 Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\Nickocosmic\Documents\MBR.dat"
03:14:45.381 The log file has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\Nickocosmic\Documents\aswMBR.txt"