VRDB

[anson]

What is the function of VRDB?

[YoKenny]

It is the Virus Recovery DataBase but it is obsolete now as new removal of new malware can not be used to recover these new infections.
It will not be in the new avast! V5.

[Black3agl3]

What system will be used instead?

[Lisandro]

Well... there isn't a recovery system for infected files, i.e., repair.
The best is prevention, not cure.
The better is have backups

[Mr.Agent]

But i was wondering if the file was like a file of Avast! or Malwarebytes..... Or a picture that you had on your pc and a virus attacked it... So you will delete it ?

[mathboyx215]

But i was wondering if the file was like a file of Avast! or Malwarebytes..... Or a picture that you had on your pc and a virus attacked it... So you will delete it ?

You could always reinstall the software

[Mr.Agent]

Yeah its easy this thing but what you think if its a family picture that you was having on your pc and its really personal and u cant repair it because of a virus infected it ? So its would make you mad no ?

[mathboyx215]

Yeah its easy this thing but what you think if its a family picture that you was having on your pc and its really personal and u cant repair it because of a virus infected it ? So its would make you mad no ?

I will be mad but even if you have VRDB,you can't repair the family picture since I think VRDB only make copies of important system file and no pictures

[anson]

Do you think I need the VRDB to run or generate, it seems that my hard disk space becomes lower.

[mathboyx215]

You can disable if you think it is slowing your computer down.This feature is going to be dropped in version 5 anyway

[anson]

If I generate a VRDB is there any option to remove the files used when generating?

[mathboyx215]

I don't think so.

[DavidR]

Do you think I need the VRDB to run or generate, it seems that my hard disk space becomes lower.

If you mean it takes up more space rather than slower, the VRDB doesn't make copies of files (it isn't like conventional backup), it makes information about the file to try and help repair it if it gets infected. It also doesn't do this for every file, commonly only for executables. So it shouldn't take up that much space.

If you do mean slower, I can't see how as it only runs when a) you manually generate it or b) every three weeks, which is its run interval.

If I generate a VRDB is there any option to remove the files used when generating?

No, because it isn't saving complete files as I mentioned above.

[anson]

Does VRDB help my computer?

[DavidR]

It is of less importance now than when it was first introduced. Today's malware is much harder to clean because of encryption, etc. and from version 5.0 the VRDB will no longer be in avast.