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.iNiz
Jul 24th, 2005, 02:04 AM
My AVG found some viruses I guess, and theres about 6-7 of them in the virus vault?..do i simply just keep them there?..or delete them?

some of them are system files so I'm scared :(

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4982/vault2ym.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vault2ym.jpg)

Headhunter
Jul 24th, 2005, 02:15 AM
The vault is supposed to isolate those files from interacting with the rest of your system, shouldn't be further problems from them.

Looks like you took a risk, judging by the crack.exe seen in your screenshot...

supershocka
Jul 24th, 2005, 02:16 AM
hmm..bad res on the pic...
But personally, when I find a virus, I'll try to use the heal function but otherwise I just delete the sucker. Nothing ever happened to my comp after doing so .

Just because the virus is in the system folder doesn't mean it is a system file..

Kwirky
Jul 24th, 2005, 02:33 AM
Just because the virus is in the system folder doesn't mean it is a system file..

Exactly... this is another tactic used by virus writers, getting ppl to believe it's an important sys file so the won't delete it...

Gee
Jul 24th, 2005, 02:58 AM
From what I see, it is safe to delete the files.

Here is my guess on what they are

1. tt87.exe is not a system file. Safe to delete.
2. system restore file, I suggest you turn off system restore to delete all the current files and then turn it back on. But it is also safe to delete this file.
3. Seems like a cache file from Firefox. Safe to delete
4. crack.exe, well you know what you did here
5. See #2
6. See #2