Hi,
I’m running Avast! Free version 7.0.1474, with up to date definitions, on a WinXP SP3 machine for which I have the admin account.
I added some files to the chest manually - they are a few game trainers which were downloaded onto this PC some months back. They are mostly zip files, a couple of rar’s, and an nfo.
None of the aforementioned files get flagged by Avast when I scan them now, but a couple of them were extracted some time ago and at that time it appeared that at least one of them had contents that was questionable, as (iirc) Avast picked up a self-executing file and dealt with it. (The .nfo might have been the other half of that extract, as I can’t think why an .nfo would be there on its own otherwise.)
I think most of them are probably safe anyway - and especially so in their current state, as irrespective of what is in them, from what I remember when I scanned them some time ago, neither Avast nor Jotti nor VirusTotal flags anything much at all when looking at the archives themselves, or even some of their contents (though with at least that one exception mentioned above).
Either way I want to be shot of the files.
I am neither a total novice, but nor by any means am I an expert when it comes to IT. I’m normally pretty cautious, so to save time having to look into it properly myself I therefore opted to use Avast’s chest instead of deleting them via the Recycle Bin - just in case there was a reason that doing so was somehow a bad idea (especially after having had Avast previously catch that dodgy .exe mentioned above).
As Avast doesn’t flag them as a threat I therefore added them to the chest list manually using the Right Click/Add procedure. On separate attempts I then tried to delete them either one at a time, or all at once, via the chest (using Right Click and Confirm Delete). However, after deleting them from the chest, the original files still appear to be present in the directory where I had them stored prior to addition to the chest.
I tried to find mention of this in other threads, but all I saw was people having trouble removing persistent infections, etc.; whereas my issue is that Avast appears to not be removing the files in the first place.
Am I making some silly oversight when I try to delete them using the chest? Or is it that I added them to the chest manually, despite no threat being detected, and therefore Avast is for some weird reason treating them as copies of the original files, and thus only deleting those copies – because that surely shouldn’t be the case with what I have expressly designated as being a potentially infected file, should it?
Thanks for reading. Any help is much appreciated. 