Avast popped up for speechruntime.exe saying it was a virus. Turns out it’s the thing Windows uses for Cortana. I tried to remove it from the virus chest but I can’t. Is there some way to remove it manually? Like a folder?
How to use chest >> https://support.avast.com/en-ww/article/Use-Antivirus-Virus-Chest
You can’t just drag something out of the avast virus chest folder like a standard location. Files in the virus chest are encrypted and the file name is changed, so dragging it out (even if the avast self-defence got involved) you wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.
AIS 18.4.2338.
I can’t delete from the chest either.
I have just run a test using the eicar.com file (copying it from an excluded location into the open) and avast alerted and I sent it to the virus chest, attached images 1&2.
I then selected Restore from the virus chest, attached image 3 and that sent it back and cleared the virus chest, attached image 4. For obvious reasons I didn’t send it for analysis, so I didn’t test that function.
Have you tried an Avast Repair ?
Have you tried an Avast Repair ?
Several times, including immediately prior to this post >:(
The Delete button raise the delete confirmation dialog, but after clicking Delete there, the file stubbornly remains in the chest.
If you right click avast tray icon and access chest from that menu, any difference?
Thanks for the thought, Pondus, but already tested and no, sadly.
You could try the latest beta: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=15
I could, but…
I’m very wary of installing beta anything - been bitten too many times.
EDIT: Spelling error
Replying to my own post, but…
I emptied the chest by the simple expedient of permanently deleting the folder’s contents.
Avast recreates the index.xml file on reboot.
Crude but effective 