Files in chest? (SOLVED)

Viruses and worms
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I have installed avast and after it updated and checked the computer etc, I looked in the chest and found 3 dll files, kernel32, winsock and wsock32. I rescanned these files and show no virus, they are also still in the c:\system32 folder. I thought if a file was suspect it would be moved to the chest, could some one please tell me why they are in the chest there was no indication of any infection after scanning?

tia

Clive

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Hi,

You are viewing the chest files through the All Chest Files setting. If you click on System files you should see those same files. These are back ups placed there by Avast. Nothing to worry about.

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  • The only area you should be interested in is the Infected Files section, this is where the files detected by avast and selected by you to move to the chest are placed.
  • The User Files section is where the user can add files they suspect of being malware but not detected by avast.
  • The System Files section is where avast keeps back-up copies of important system files in case the original becomes infected (leave them alone).
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Thanks now I understand how it works.

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No problem, glad I could help.

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