I have AVG antivirus, and I was just wondering what the threats of deleting items from the virus vault are.?

Question

And if there aren't any threats to deleting them, why doesn't AVG automatically delete items that go to the virus vault? Thanks.

Answer 1

In the famous words of JibbarJabbar "Quarantine first, THEN delete."

*No* program, free or paid for, is perfect, and *all* have been known to make an occasional false positive. If you were to just blindly delete every threat that your scans ever found, you may eventually delete something vital to the proper functioning of your computer.

Just let it sit in quarantine for a week or so while you go about your normal usage. If everything remains normal, then delete the quarantine. No need to be in a hurry; if it's in quarantine it can't hurt you.

Answer 2

assuming a secure erase, and the files are not activated when moving them to the trash? probably minimal.

Best bet: just delete the vault. I should think the anti-virus software would make a new vault upon launch. deleting the vault as a whole means files stay encrypted, and therefore harmless.

Answer 3

Some infected files may be repaired, so there is a vault for you to choos whether recover them

However, the practice for handling infected files should be "delete". No matter what it is, even though the infected files may be a system files. Just delete. Of course, you may need to repair your system.

But "delete" is the best way to handle infected files.

Answer 4

If your computer has worked all these days with the infected items locked away in the vault, your computer doesn't need the files in the vault. You can safely empty the vault.