I recently had my Avast (I love Avast, used it for years) put into the virus chest the following virus Win32Adware-gen. the virus came from a file which was in program files86 pdfcreator the file was changed in 2012 and transferred in February 2016. the name is called message.exe.
So anyway here is my question. I read that if i delete the file from the Virus Chest, that the file still stays in the system. Anyway that is what somebody said from Avast in one line of explanation. there must be a way to delete the file from the system and the virus chest at the same time???
Certainly I thought that is how the Avast software worked before 2016. But there seems to be 2 different opinions on line. so how do i delete the file from the system when i remove it from the virus chest???
If we are being technical, nothing in the computer is deleted, what you do is remove all reference to the file so that the OS can not see it and tell the computer that it can overwrite this area when it need that space
put into the virus chest the following virus Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
what had me confused was this remark from Avast on use of the virus chest , “Delete – Will remove/delete the selected files(s) from the Virus Chest. It will NOT delete the file(s) from hard disk”
And of course if it will not delete the file from the hard disk the adware would be operational. but i understand what your saying, i think, if i delete it, my cleaners should wipe it right of the disk i presume.
Moving to chest is the same as when you delete a file and it is move it to recycle bin, exept that chest/quarantine is a protected area that only your antivirus has access to and no file can run there
when you empty your recycle bin you remove all reference to the file so it can not run/not seen and it will be overwritten when that space is needed … same thing when chest/quarantine is emptied
I think CCleaner have a function that will overwrite all empty space and you can select how many times, if you feel the need to do so but any file deleted from quarantine will never run again, it is gone
