avast's virus chest (..or should that be pandora's box) ;D

Viruses and worms
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hi folks
can I delete infected files (mchinjdrv.sys) from the treasure chest shown there under ‘original location’ as C win sys 32 drivers ? or would that just ruin everything on my pc? see attached print screen if necessary
thanks
novice

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Hey zebedee , welcome to Avast! Support Forum .

For the moment just leave mchinjdrv.sys in the chest , it’s that simple .

For more info What to do with files in Chest?

If you have any problems please write back in this thread ,
Cheers

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If they’re into Chest they were already removed from your computer.
You can right click them, rescan and if they’re infected you can delete them :wink:

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Apart from what you have been told by the others, I see other things/questions.

Firstly you have multiple copies of that file in the chest so this was a recurring problem for a while. So we may have to do other things.

Though the dates are concatenated I can only see the day not the month or year, so assuming that these are recent then the 16th, 18th and 19th of last month is that correct (or is it from earlier than that) ?

If it is from last month or earlier it looks like the recurrence has stopped and you can scan within the chest and delete if infected as Tech suggests, but it may be worthwhile doing some other scans.

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).

  1. SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version.

  2. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware freeware version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.