DavidR
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If they uninstalled avast the chest also gets removed with its contents.
I don’t believe there is a way to retrieve it in this situation. As part of the protection process, the virus chest changed the original file name and encrypts the file. The only reference to the original is in the index.xml file in the same location and that would have been deleted also.
So even if you were able to retrieve index.xml with a deleted files recovery program, you could find what the renamed file is and try to recover that. Even if you were successful in recovering that file, it would be in an encrypted form and I don’t believe that you would be able to decrypt that.
Whilst I don’t work for avast, I believe the above to be an accurate representation of how avast protects the virus chest and what happens to the chest and its contents when uninstalled.