Virus Chest

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Avast popped up for speechruntime.exe saying it was a virus. Turns out it's the thing Windows uses for Cortana. I tried to remove it from the virus chest but I can't. Is there some way to remove it manually? Like a folder? 

[Pondus]

How to use chest  >>  https://support.avast.com/en-ww/article/Use-Antivirus-Virus-Chest

[DavidR]

Avast popped up for speechruntime.exe saying it was a virus. Turns out it's the thing Windows uses for Cortana. I tried to remove it from the virus chest but I can't. Is there some way to remove it manually? Like a folder? 

You can't just drag something out of the avast virus chest folder like a standard location.  Files in the virus chest are encrypted and the file name is changed, so dragging it out (even if the avast self-defence got involved) you wouldn't be able to do anything with it.

[alanb]

AIS 18.4.2338.

I can't delete from the chest either.

[DavidR]

I have just run a test using the eicar.com file (copying it from an excluded location into the open) and avast alerted and I sent it to the virus chest, attached images 1&2.

I then selected Restore from the virus chest, attached image 3 and that sent it back and cleared the virus chest, attached image 4.  For obvious reasons I didn't send it for analysis, so I didn't test that function.

Have you tried an Avast Repair ?

[alanb]

Have you tried an Avast Repair ?

Several times, including immediately prior to this post 

The Delete button raise the delete confirmation dialog, but after clicking Delete there, the file stubbornly remains in the chest.

[Pondus]

If you right click avast tray icon and access chest from that menu, any difference?

[alanb]

Thanks for the thought, Pondus, but already tested and no, sadly.

[Asyn]

You could try the latest beta: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=15

[alanb]

I could, but...

I'm very wary of installing beta anything - been bitten too many times.

EDIT: Spelling error

[alanb]

Replying to my own post, but...

I emptied the chest by the simple expedient of permanently deleting the folder's contents.

Avast recreates the index.xml file on reboot.

Crude but effective