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Offline igor

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Re: Avast creates ghost-folders!
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2009, 11:34:44 PM »
Btw, the "Move" action will be removed from avast! 5.0 altogether, as it's not particularly useful.

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Re: Avast creates ghost-folders!
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2009, 12:05:06 AM »
Btw, the "Move" action will be removed from avast! 5.0 altogether, as it's not particularly useful.
What about sending system files needed to boot to Chest?
At least moving allow moving back before logon.
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Re: Avast creates ghost-folders!
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2009, 12:36:00 AM »
Btw, the "Move" action will be removed from avast! 5.0 altogether, as it's not particularly useful.

Thanks for the feedback, personally I have never liked that option. Even given what Tech mentions about restoring files before boot which can't be done from the chest.
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Re: Avast creates ghost-folders!
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2009, 10:20:23 AM »
Btw, the "Move" action will be removed from avast! 5.0 altogether, as it's not particularly useful.
Even given what Tech mentions about restoring files before boot which can't be done from the chest.

There ARE reasons to use the "Move/Rename..."-Option - and additionally, the .vir-suffix is a certain protection - even if the chest is the safer solution.

I just found something more I'd like to be enhanced: restoring a file from the chest might be dangerous - but there is neither a warning nor a confirmation when doing that!! And there is even no dialog that shows that a file that was consider a threat is "dumped" somewhere deep in any directory structure where it could be difficult to find it again.

I propose to implement a simple warning (Something like: "You are just about to restore a file that was once considerd a threat? Are you sure that this corresponds to you intention?" or so) that you have to confirm before the restore itself is done.

And I propose additionally to implement a possibility do directly open the containing folder where the "chested" file came from/where it will be restored. How to find that file again when clicking on "restore" was not the intention? Sure, the directory can be read and typed in manually in any finder (sorry, explorer) window. I propose either to be able to copy the path (to have the field of the original locaton copyable (not changeable)) - or even better to have the possibility to just click onto the directory path to get there (a "open original location" in the context menu inside the chest).
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Re: Avast creates ghost-folders!
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2009, 02:13:19 PM »
Igor, David, when you got a user32.dll infection you'll regret to have sent the file to Chest and could not boot the system anymore...
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