Virus chest

I’m a little confused about the virus chest, does deleting the file from the chest remove the file from my hard drive or does it just remove it from the virus chest?

Avast 2015: Using the Virus Chest https://www.avast.com/en-eu/faq.php?article=AVKB21#artTitle

Clean, Quarantine, or Delete? http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm

Video: Using the Avast Virus Chest https://www.avast.com/en-eu/faq.php?article=AVKB149#artTitle

avast FAQ https://www.avast.com/en-eu/faq.php
FAQ videos https://www.avast.com/en-eu/faq.php?q=video#searchForm

So it removes the virus from the chest and hard drive.

gone to virus heaven … rip ;D

That depends on how/why it is in the virus chest.

  1. If avast detected it as malware/virus, etc. and avast sent it to the chest, then that is its only location and copy. In which case deleting it from there is final, no other copies anywhere.

  2. If you manually add it to the chest (you think it suspicious/infected but no alert from avast), you are only copying it to the avast virus chest and a copy still exists in the original location and only copy. Deleting it from the chest in this case is only deleting the avast virus chest and not the original location copy.

Thanks for the info. Avast added it to the chest right after I downloaded the file, and i’ve now removed it from my computer/chest.

You’re welcome.