Ok, so I ran a computer check with avast, and it showed several pieces of adware, a virus, and some trojans on my computer. I added them to the "chest" on avast (like it recommended), but what am I supposed to do now? Do I delete them from the chest, or how do I go about disposing of them properly?
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9 responses so far ↓
1 MINDDOCTOR // Apr 3, 2008
Either way makes no difference. You can let them stay in the chest, or you can delete them as they will no longer be in your system. (You have nothing to worry about).
Should get another virus there will be no relationship to the viruses that you have in the virus chest.
Mind Doctor, France
2 unclerichard68 // Apr 3, 2008
I would delete them, but they may reappear again this is because they have taken refuge in your Restore partition and this will have to be deleted. Disable your Restore, reboot run all your anti virus programs, reboot enable restore and create a restore point.
3 heebus_jeebus // Apr 3, 2008
First, don't turn off your system restore unless you *know* that the infection has gotten into your restore files. Blindly advising someone to turn off their system restore without knowing if the infection has gotten into their restore files is just plain bad advice.
(See source below.)
Second, the malware is safely segregated in Avast's virus chest. Let it stay there for now. If you just rush into deleting things without a proper quarantine period, you run the risk of deleting a critical file… (false positives *do* happen… even to the best of antivirus.)
Just go about your normal computer use for a week or so, then assuming everything has continued to run properly, then you can safely delete the contents of the virus chest.
4 Thomas F // Apr 3, 2008
you can delete or try AVG free version it has vault also, but I suggest Ad-Aware, and winpatrol, they are killer firewall stuff…at cnet.com ,free versions get them, they are great had for years….
5 Willy // Apr 3, 2008
It's best to leave them in quarantine at least for a while, just to be sure they aren't innocent (and necessary) files mis-diagnosed. Avast doesn't have a reputation for false-positives but it can happen. If your pc keeps working OK with them in quarantine then it should be OK to delete them later.
6 rezaur@rogers.com // Apr 3, 2008
i think you should delete it !!!
7 Patrick W // Apr 3, 2008
If you can delete them from the chest, feel free to do so, it put them in a kind of Quarantine, keeping these files from being activated.
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8 Lowdown // Apr 3, 2008
Trash the PC & get yerself a Mac. baby.
Then wash all yer probs away…
9 Icefire // Apr 3, 2008
delete them if they are in quarantine, which must be the "chest" you are talking about. You can also run http://www.spyware.com/xscan.php it is free, runs, asks you if ya wanna delete things it finds, then disappears when its done, because it's an applet, not a downloaded program.
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