Hi,
How do I change the location of Avast Virus Chest (Quarantine)? Keeping it on C-drive is crazy as some times important files ends up there, and then when reinstalling the OS all is gone… Have happen for me few times.
Afaik, that’s not possible.
Thanks Asyn.
So pity then… This ruins the software’s whole idea about “protecting” the user’s computer and files.
Do you know if it is possible in the paid version?
No.
What might work better long-term is to simply install an image backup program to avoid frequent clean installs of the operating system; you won’t lose your important files in the virus chest unless you uninstall the avast program itself. All other personal files will be protected by imaging your C: drive as long as you keep your personal files on it.
I’ve no idea why Avast would be expected to “protect” user files and computer from deletion if one does a clean install of an os. ??? Any os clean install will remove all old files when the disk is formatted as a matter of course, and that would include deleting avast or any other antivirus as well.
You’re welcome.
@ Peter986
Not sure why your ‘important’ files would be in the virus chest ?
If they are infected then they are in the right place, where ever the virus chest may be located. If you feel that they are false positives, submit them for analysis so it can be corrected. Or add an exclusion for the files if you accept the risk that they might not be false positives.
If these 'important files would ordinarily be located in C:\ then they would be subject to any OS clean install. But as suggested drive image backups to an external drive could save a lot of grief regardless of the reason and OS restore.