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Hello,

This is a really stupid question i know, but i am new to Avast, and when it finds virus’s etc, it says the 3 options on what to do, but i do now know what “Move to chest” means, if someone could please tell me, i would be very grateful.

Thank you.

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Welcome :slight_smile:

You can read avast! help and you will understand everything :wink:

Here’s some info about the Virus Chest

[b]The Chest can be thought of as a special folder on your computer that is safe and isolated, which makes it a suitable place for storing specific files. You can still work with the files in the Chest, but with some restrictions.

Main features

Complete isolation from the rest of the operating system. No outer process can affect files in the Chest. It means that no virus can infect them either.
Files in the Chest cannot be run. This “restriction” has its reason: it is impossible to run a virus and infect the rest of the computer or the other files in the Chest. [/b]

The rest you can find in the help file or you can do a forum search about the Chest ;)
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Ah thank you very much for the help and infomation :slight_smile:

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No matter what the options given, I believe in first do no harm (like the doctors are meant to do) and move to the chest achieves that and gives you time to investigate.

What to do with files in the chest.
There is no rush to delete anything from the chest, they can’t do any harm there. Anything that you send to the chest you should leave there for a week or two, to ensure your system is OK. That way the file is still available to restore if required, after that time if everything is ok you can delete it from within the chest.