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Virus's
« on: November 19, 2006, 02:45:05 AM »
Ok everytime avast finds a virus the recommended always is to move to chest.. So i was wondering what should i really do, should i delete the things or should just keep it in the chest.. Any info would be great........

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Re: Virus's
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2006, 04:58:21 AM »
Just keep them there, they can't do no harm from there. If you are 100% that they are indeed viruses and not false positives, then you can delete them from the chest. You can scan the chest from time to time to see if they still show as infected.

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Re: Virus's
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2006, 01:05:32 PM »
File into Chest (Quarentine) are safe to stay there. There is no rush to delete anything from the Chest, a protected area where it can do no harm. Anything that you send to the Chest you should leave there for a few weeks. If after that time you have suffered no adverse effects from moving these to the Chest, scan them again (right clicking the file inside the Chest) and if they are still detected as viruses, delete them.

This is a precaution because:
a) system files (necessary to boot and use the computer)
b) false positives (clean files that was wrong detected as being infected) could happen from time to time and it's safer not to delete the file, but send them to Chest for further analysis.  ;)
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