New to avast. Infection detected. HELP NEEDED!

Avast Mac Security
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Hello. I’m new to avast. I work on an iMac and the avast popup alert says infection detected.

Can someone tell me what I do with this information?

– Do I automatically run a full system scan? Which takes hours… can I continue working whilst it’s scanning or could I potentially open the infection?
or
– Does it automatically move the infection into the virus chest (doesn’t appear to be in there though).

Is there a quick scan option?

I couldn’t find a user manual for avast.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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and the avast popup alert says infection detected.
can you give all the info on the popup ..... or attach a screenshot
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Here you go: http://files.avast.com/files/documentation/avast-free-antivirus-for-mac-quick-start-guide-en.pdf

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Thanks for the link to the user guide Asyn. That should help!

And Pondus, whilst I figure out how to upload an image to this forum the info on the popup was this…

Mail shield has detected a threat.

Infection: Win32:Trojan-gen
Subject: 20/06/2014 Photo
From: jyp1025@samwhapaper.com
File: photo.zip/photo.scr

Thanks!

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Attachments and other options are found just below the box you write in

You can upload and test the mail attacment at one of these places
www.virustotal.com / www.metascan-online.com / www.jotti.org

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Thanks for all your help.

I did a full scan, it didn’t bring up the infected file so I manually searched for this and added to the virus chest. I also used one online tool on the file, so thanks for those links.

The user manual is very basic and didn’t help much, I imagine once avast finds an infection it deals with it straight away, bit it is unclear.

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You’re welcome.