No continue ignore virus

Since we are on the screen topic, hope you don't mind I squeeze in this question:

I check my rig via SSH and the last time it crashed (overall reported hashrate by pool dropped to 0, so I went and had a look), I did screen -r and it reported back there was no screen to reattach. So, from other people's experience with running cgminer under screen: How stable is screen? Any only else encountered this?

Screen by default is closing itself if application ends, also when it crash.
see screen --help to find workaround

I have been using screen reliably since I started mining 15 months ago.  I have never seen screen crash.  I have seen no screen available messages a couple times, when trying to do screen -r, but that always meant that cgminer, itself, crashed (screen exits when the command it started exits.  I know it these were cgminer crashes because my shell script that wraps the start and stop logs the start time immediately before cgminer starts and the stop time immediately after it exits.  The current iteration of my shell script actually has a loop in it that restarts cgminer if it ever exits instead of just exiting itself, and since then I have never seen screen not be available when attaching to it.

Does anyone know if these will work with the K16 which I believe uses the Icarus protocol?  I don't physically have the board yet so at this point its just a question.

Would you mind sharing your code for this? I can't seem to get mine up & running... It's a pain having to re-type everything on a restart....

Well, AVAST sucks for a start.  Use Microsoft Security Essentials. 

Second, as long as you downloaded cgminer from the correct place, it won't be a virus.  Use only the links in the first post on this thread.  I've seen cgminer packages hosted on Rapidshare and the likes, and they have had a virus in them.

Kano, it seems that most everyone in this forum:  https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/195052.1760 has not been able to get cgminer 3.2.0 to work with the little USB block erupters. The people that have been successful are using 3.1.1. You seemed so confident that it would work and I assume you have one of these devices too. Given that it worked fine for you and for none of us (that I am aware of), it's probably something simple to fix, like a missing library or something?

One of the symptoms is that after running 3.2.0, the device indev/ttyUSB0 disappears.  

Edit:  did you get one of the original block erupters and ours are the new Sapphire version?

Here you go:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/debug/

Sorry, this is news to me. I haven't seen the posts you are talking about. Even so, the devices still don't show up on the ncurses display. Anything else that needs to be done to get them recognized?