Thanks for quick reply. I followed your advice and went to my tasks to define actions to be taken. I then read Virus section in the Help file and it says there that " When a virus is found, the task is temporarily stopped and a window appears where you can choose the action to take. You can select the possible actions to be offered in this window by pressing the Interactive button". so if I understood correctly choosing the option to delete or move to chest or other action in tasks, doesn't really help, as it still requires me to manually tell Avast to take the action i chose. And since I usually set my avast to run at night, I never see the pop up window when the virus is found. so I am still looking for a way for Avast to take an action by itself when a virus is found