Thanks,
mkis.
Treesa, well done for working out how to locate/post the logs.
The one I'd really like to see is the one resulting from
this scan where you say 1 tracking cookie and 70 infected files were found. (Should be on about that date - around the 19th.)
The files you have attached show no problems at all, as you probably surmised yourself, and I'd cautiously suggest things are looking good.
Files that are in any quarantine stay there. Imprisoned. Alone, bereft of light and comfort, and unable to escape unless the warden (you) releases them. They can stay there indefinitely, although the only reason you'd want to keep them is i case one (or more) of them is a false positive, and later scans clean, and you need to restore it.
The way to know that is to re-scan them periodically from within the chest. A look at the file name and original location will often gove a good idea about what the file was for, and what program used it, if you are concerned it may be a
F.P..
(Or you could post the file name/path, detection name, and ask here
)
There are other tricks, too, but that's enough for now.
As mkis said, default Avast settings are fine. Setting the provider to high results in it scanning every file, instead of just executable files. (So it will scan dormant files, files that can't do anything on their own.) This slows things down, sometimes quite a bit.
Same when you do a full scan. Just use the standard settings, don't worry about scanning inside archives. Archives can't run by themselves. Nothing wrong with thorough scan/inside archives, it will just take forever. I'd just do that type of scan about once a year. If that. And on first installation of Avast, on a computer that hasn't previously used it.
