did the chest use to have a repair option? to use.
i sent them to the site here and did a virus report, am lost why they are listed as Win32: Trojan-1517 [trj] what with the numbers at the end of the name? 1517, 1518
by the way i try to look up info on them to see what i can do or have to do to remove any thing it may have done to the OS none could be found or any information on the name of this viruse Trojan horse 1517,1518
Moving to the chest is fine (first do no harm, don’t delete) and investigate as you are doing. Leave them in the chest for a week or two to ensure there is no system problems from having moved them (then they can be deleted from the chest, but no rush). Just in case a system file, etc. was incorrectly detected as a virus.
You won’t get a Repair option with trojans, generally they can’t be repaired (either by the VRDB or avast virus cleaner), because the entire content of the file is malware, so it is either move to chest or delete, move to the chest being the best option. When a file is in the chest it can’t do any harm.
What folder were they found example (C:\windows\system32)?
by the way i am using “V-Com Systemsuit 5” with a anti-virus (trend micro) program in it, was scanning memory/boot area and avast seen them Trojan horse 1517 & 1518. trend micro was blind to it. anyways i am happy that avast is catching every thing.
avast is the main program i use and trend micro anti-virus i use it like once a week. been a long time i had a virus in this OS. really god blissing this Avast is. thanks
PS i only have one drive it got name for some reason F and not C for now i am stuck with F: drive, the C: drive was my Zip-drive 250mb i don’t use it anyways cost to much i use a Cd-writer now days
It is not recommended to have two resident scanners on the same system as it can cause conflict that could lock up your system, possibly leaving you vulnerable. If you are able only to have it as an on-demand (you initiate the scans) rather than on-access (before a file opens your AV scans it) otherwise two resident on-access scanners could be fighting over who opens what first.
I don’t have a second AV scanner on my system, I have considered an on-demand option like BitDefender (downloaded it once, but never installed it), but you can always use one of the on-line scanners.
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How are you trying to send the infected files?
Are you scanning the Outbound mail with avast? Does it allow to send infected mail?
Are you sending in a zipped file with a password?
Some ISP does not allow sending some type of files…
If you are using the internal avast Chest ‘Email to ALWIL Software…’
How were you trying to send the email by SMTP or MAPI protocol?
The default is MAPI, so perhaps your accounts/email program can’t handle MAPI, try a change to SMTP.