Removing FP Virus from qurantine in Avast

[alaura]

Now that we know today's VBS Malware-gen was a false positive, is it safe to remove it from our quarantined bin?

[CharleyO]

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Welcome to the forums, alaura.   

What entries do you have in quarantine?


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[alaura]

I can't figure out how to copy the entries, but basically they're all the yahoo ones that began popping up yesterday:

yahoo[1].htm   VBS Malware - gen

[Lisandro]

Right click the file into Chest (Quarantine) and scan it.
If it is clean, you can restore it (them).

[alaura]

Okay, there were 5 of the yahoo ones - no virus - I restored each but they're still showing up in the chest.  Should I now delete them.

Another one had a virus detected ( A0152117.dll  Win32:Adware - gen (Adw).  I assume I do not want to restore that one, but should I delete it?

Sorry for the questions, but I'm new with Avast.

TIA

alaura

[Lisandro]

Okay, there were 5 of the yahoo ones - no virus - I restored each but they're still showing up in the chest.  Should I now delete them.

These particular files can be deleted. When restoring, avast keeps the file into Chest, you need to manually delete them. In other case, there is no rush to delete the chested files. Let them there for further analysis and eventually restoring.

Another one had a virus detected ( A0152117.dll  Win32:Adware - gen (Adw).  I assume I do not want to restore that one, but should I delete it?

Files into Chest are safe and can't harm. Let it there for two weeks, rescan, check your system is working fine without it, them delete it

[alaura]

Thank you for your prompt help!

alaura

[Lisandro]

Thank you for your prompt help!

alaura

You're welcome. Feel free to come back any time you need help or just to change experiences