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What is the "Virus Vault"?
Topic Started: Aug 27 2011, 05:08 AM (188 Views)
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I have AVG free. Lately I have gotten signals that my virus vault is full.

Not sure what a virus vault is. If the program (or Ad Aware which I also have) find viruses, why would they keep them in a vault? Why would they not just delete them?

So my question is - I have it seems, two options : One is to "Empty Vault" and the other is "Delete"

If I empty the vault, where do the items in it go? If I hit delete, I have a year's worth of individual cookies, etc. there, and they must be deleted manually, page by page. Does Empty Vault delete everything? or does it release the items to be active on my computer again?
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Aug 27 2011, 05:08 AM
I have AVG free. Lately I have gotten signals that my virus vault is full.

Not sure what a virus vault is. If the program (or Ad Aware which I also have) find viruses, why would they keep them in a vault? Why would they not just delete them?

So my question is - I have it seems, two options : One is to "Empty Vault" and the other is "Delete"

If I empty the vault, where do the items in it go? If I hit delete, I have a year's worth of individual cookies, etc. there, and they must be deleted manually, page by page. Does Empty Vault delete everything? or does it release the items to be active on my computer again?
When AVG does its scans and happens to encounter something that could be considered a threat, it will automatically prevent the file from being used, by moving it into the virus vault.
Then, as a user, you can examine what has been isolated in the vault. If an item is something that you know about and it is in fact safe, and it can be restored to service.
If its contained in the vault, its been separated from normal use, and if you haven't noticed any of your programs having a problem, its probably safe to delete the item.

I'm using AVG ver:10 and if you are not, I would heartily recommend that you would update yours

In Version 10, if you click HELP>CONTENTS>VIRUS VAULT, there is an excellent explanation of how the virus vault works and how to work with it!

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Virus Vault settings

If you are sure you do not need the deleted files, you can remove these completely – or leave them in the Virus Vault to be removed automatically, which by default happens either after 30 days, or when the total size of files in the Virus Vault exceeds 5% of your hard drive size. You can change these settings in the Virus Vault maintenance dialog.


From the above quote, I would assume that the space consumed by the virus vault has exceeded 5% of your hard drive capacity.


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Thank you, Wildie. I will just empty the vault which I assume will delete all of those files.
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Aug 27 2011, 10:38 AM
Thank you, Wildie. I will just empty the vault which I assume will delete all of those files.
I would assume that also! It would likely be a good idea for us to check the virus vault regularly, but I have to admit, I haven't checked mine in a long time. signs081
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Norton does the same thing but they call it QUARANTINE and they are kept forever. God knows why one would want to keep these things in perpetuity.
In fact when I removed Norton last week they cautioned me that it would remove the items in QUARANTINE????
Like I'd want to take them WITH me?
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