Scanning files in the virus chest

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have 11 files in the virus chest. I have scanned these files whilst they are safely in the chest. If any of them were actual viruses would this scan alert me with some sort of message or warning ?

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You can scan them within Chest (right click them) and you’ll see a popup message.

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Examples of the popup message for infected/clean :slight_smile:

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The pop up message just shows the file type and name - nothing showing clean or virus just PUP after file type and name

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Can you show a screenshot?

As you can see, it should say whether or not it is infected

EDIT: I see your edit now, PUP is a detection, so PUP is the “infection”
(i.e it is correct)

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So PUP denotes that it is an actual virus ?

Thanks so much for all the replies

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PUP - potentially unwanted application.

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Potentially unwanted program :slight_smile:
Could be for good, could be used by a hacker…