I’ve heard it doesn’t have VRDB, so how will it repair infected files?
I suspect there won’t be any “repair” option (other than for avast itself, if anything slips through its self-protection feature).
Probably the main reason the VRDB’s being dropped is that it was designed to clean up after “simple” viruses, which infected existing files on your system. Unfortunately the vast majority of malware making the rounds these days is far more complex and “sophisticated”, e.g. trojans which add new files to your system which quite often are given the same filenames as (and replace) critical system files. So repair of a legit file which has become infected and corrupted is no longer a particularly viable option.
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From a lot I’ve read, most of the malware today is the body of the infection. Trojan, worm etc, the entire file is “viral” and repair is not-applicable. Legitimate files are not being infected with this type of malware attack. (Some are being disabled or otherwise prevented from working.) New and illegitimate files are being added.
For actual file infectors that this topic might be applicable to, the worst of them does such a “buggy” job of infecting the legitimate file (eg Vitro) that any kind of automated repair is not possible anyway.
The best way is the keep our computer clean^^
So how people that store picture,video and music will can repair their personal thing ?
If you don’t want to lose it then back it up, that is always how I have ensured that if I have something I don’t want to lose then I protect it by having multiple copies of it.
This doesn’t just mean protection against viruses, from any computer issue and human error that could result in the lost of your important data.
Backup, like David said, is the solution.
For me, full partition backup. I don’t like creating system images (in the past, corrupt archive files made me impossible to restore). I copy full partition and restore them if something get wrong. By the way, did them yesterday 