My Folders turned into exe files

Hi everybody,
I don't know what happened to my Mac today, i assumed it's a virus but the strange here is that virus is only affect Windows OS. The story is, I have a friend, she borrowed my camera, as she returned it, i was on boot camp and was using Windows for gaminng, i plugged my camera and delete photos that my friend has taken. I noticed nothing strange and i didn't have any Anti-virus program on Windows. Until i login to my Mac, i see all of the folders on my Macintosh HD drive is now exe files. I can still access these folders by using the "Go" option on the Menu Bar. I downloaded Kaspersky and scan for viruses, it showed that the drive is infected with Worm.Win32.Autorun.gvy. If i try to delete the file, it also delete the whole Folder which causes my Mac to crash and need to restart.
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Thomas A Reed wrote:
That is truly bizarre. I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying about that malware, though. Did you scan your Windows partition and find that it was infected with that malware? Or did you scan the Mac partition and find the file there?
If the former, does the Windows partition have access to the Mac partition while Windows is running? (I'm not that familiar with how Boot Camp works.) If so, it may have done something to the Mac partition. If the latter, this can't have anything to do with that malware.
In any case, though, if I saw that, I would probably erase the hard drive and restore from my last backup. As this is not a problem I've ever heard of before, I have no idea what might have happened or how you might fix it.
For your question, Yes, i did install MacDrive when i was using Boot Camp and i regretted it. The problem here is there isn't a way to fix this virus for Mac OS. I think i will try using Boot camp and scan for viruses with Windows Programs then.
@Radiation Mac: This is about Mac Lion, the drive here is Macintosh HD which is the root drive of a Mac and these files as you can see are the folders of a normal Mac.

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