win32: malware-gen detected for .rar archive, 42111 avast response

Viruses and worms
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Hello,

I have similar problem to https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=154370.0

Avast tells that there is:
1 threat: win32:malware-gen, severity: high, action taken: automatic. And Avast says: [translated from polish] “error, one can not execute this operation for this type of archive (42111)”

That threat is associated with one .rar archive, it was downloaded from the net by night, That message occured when I decided to scan this archive several hours after downloading with avast proantivirus, Then I scanned it one more time , and that threat occured again.

I need this archive, so is it safe to unzip this archive and scan again (as Pondus said in that mentioned thread https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=154370.0 )
Or is it dangerous for my PC so I have to remove it? And because it is archive I can simply remove it(with RMB clicked>remove)?
on this PC there is a lot of valuable data, I cant have this computer crashed.

Please help

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Witam oleskopawel5a,

This generic detection is for a trojan horse infection. What you should not do is try a system restore as files will stay as they are.,
You may only loose some “load points”.
Do not use any register cleaners (like e.g. Odkurzacz to aplikacja do utrzymania porządku w systemie Windows).
Provide the demanded logs here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
After that wait for a qualified remover here to guide you through the cleansing without any further damage done. I PM one.
Wszystko będzie dobrze :wink:

pozdrawiam,

polonus

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Right click delete will remove it cleanly, as it has not been opened then there is no threat

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Dziękuję za odpowiedź /Thank you for your answer Polonus and Essexboy !!

So as I havent opened these archives I will simply delete them.

Wesołych Świąt/ Merry Christmas !