Avg should i delete virus vault

The file now appears in Quarantine and can be sent for analysis. Restore files from Quarantine Restoring files from Quarantine poses a high security risk.

This action requires advanced user knowledge and is only intended for specific situations for example, if a critical system file is moved to Quarantine. We do not send replies following file submissions or evaluations.

Move files to Quarantine After running a scan, you can send detected threats to Quarantine by clicking Resolve on the scan results screen. On the Quarantine tile, click Open. Click Add file The main purpose of the Virus Vault is to keep any deleted file for a certain period of time, so that you can make sure you do not need the file any more. If you find out that the missing file is causing problems, you can send it to analysis, or restore it to the original location.

After highlighting an object in the list with your mouse, the function buttons enable you to carry out the following actions:. This folder is created on all hard disk partitions at the moment when the first file is moved into the Virus Vault. Skip to content. Virus Vault — Availabe Actions The main purpose of the Virus Vault is to keep any deleted file for a certain period of time, so that you can make sure you do not need the file any more.

If some of the selected items are not restored successfully, these will remain highlighted in the list. When restoring files from the Virus Vault, please also note the following: If the file was originally an e-mail attachment see the Original name column , its original location is a temporary folder which might be tricky to find on your harddisk. For this reason, only the Restore as feature will be available for e-mail attachments.

Registry keys can be only restored back to original location i. Any file is restored under the Original name. If not available, then the file is restored under name given in the Path to file column. Thanks a lot for trying to help me, but luckily the problem is gone now; the virus vault is clean!

Greetings from Holland, Vincent. Alan Binch Vincent, What is the registry key quarantined that you are referring to? AVG Guru. If it's in the Virus Vault, I don't know. I just want it out of the quarantaine. It's an AVG error! Alan Binch Vincent, Check it out.. Vincent Konings Alan, I've checked my registry, and the key is not there. I just want to 'reset' my quarantaine! AVG is set up in dutch on my pc. Could you possibly tell me how to find it? There is no listing anywhere for the vault, the only thing I find is something called quarantine and it says there is nothing there.

So please where on my windows 7 is the virus vault. Telling me to leave files for a few days in case I need to restore them doesn't help if I can't find where they are if I need to restore them. Thank you. Karthikeyan Avast Hello Ruth, I can understand your concern. This feature is replaced by "Quarantine" folder. All the detected threats will be stored in this "Quarantine" folder.