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ccookie

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Virus Chest?
« on: July 13, 2010, 07:02:14 AM »
Hello, this is my first post here on Avast!  ;D  But, I have a question. If Avast! finds a virus, and it puts the virus in the virus chest, is that safe? Can the virus still be activated? Can someone give me some info about the virus chest? Thanks!
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Re: Virus Chest?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 07:19:05 AM »
The virus chest / quarantine is a virus prison. and is totally safe

Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm


Should I quarantine virus
http://askabouttech.com/should-i-quarantine-virus/

« Last Edit: July 13, 2010, 07:24:27 AM by Pondus »
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Re: Virus Chest?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 07:23:57 AM »
So if Avast finds a virus, I should put it in the virus chest? What about a PUP, or suspicious?
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Re: Virus Chest?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2010, 07:32:08 AM »
Suspicious means that the file is not yet classified, it may be clean it may be malware it may be PUP, needs more analysis
PUP = (potentially unwanted program) http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci1066761,00.html
not all virusprograms scan for PUP and avast has it turned of by defult. This is more for the malware programs like Malwarebytes / superantispyware / ad-aware.......
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Re: Virus Chest?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010, 07:57:32 AM »
Ok, thanks for the links!
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