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Neith
Oct 4, 2005, 02:34 AM
Recently AVG did a full system scan, and found a trojan. It's made a back-up of the infected file, and healed it, as far as I'm aware.

Right now, I have 1 file in my Virus Vault. What do I do with it now? Empty the vault or leave it there?

Cheers.

Curiosity
Oct 4, 2005, 03:13 AM
As far as I know it's entirely up to you what to do with it. I've currently got 6 files in my vault, which I'd totally forgotten about until now. Details on them all say they're not healable. One related to my video card/drivers, which had three copies of itself, from about four months ago (also the most recent). I should actually just empty the vault since none are even listed in Test Results, which for whatever reason only goes back to 9/5/05...

I believe it's mainly there just so if the file is healable, and possibly critical, it can be healed and put back at some point. Although I'm not entirely sure how it works, if AVG somehow replaces the file(s) with clean ones or what.