Understanding the Meaning of “Moved To Chest” On Avast By Avast Support When Avast antivirus security runs a scan on the system, then all infected files are sent to quarantine section which is called as “The virus chest”. However, it is possible to restore the applications and documents from that folder within the application.
Understanding the Functioning Avast holds malicious or infected files in Quarantine section in a secure manner. A user can check the activity of the file from this location but it is unable to make any dangerous changes to your system. According to this antivirus program, folders inside the Chest cannot run nor can outside programs access the files. If you still select an executable folder in this section, it will not run.
Accessing the Chest If an alert appears on the screen that “Avast has moved a file to the Virus Chest”, then a user is allowed to open the Chest to see the file and its properties. Open Avast application from your Start menu or from the taskbar icon. Then go to the Maintenance tab and you will be able to select a Virus Chest. When this opens up, it will show a list of many files currently inside it. If infected files are present, you can read the file name as well as the infection within the file.
Managing the Chest files This file allows a user to safely manipulate files without coincidentally running them on the system. When user clicks right on an infected file, then he can remove it completely from the laptop. Also, you can rescan files for Trojan or other virus infection in it. Avast also delivers a chance to allow you to submit details to the company’s virus lab about the infection.
Considerations If you are sure that the file is not infected and has been removed from the original location by Avast, then don’t worry because you can restore it on the computer. However, this antivirus notifies both restoring and extracting- which permits the user to create a copy of the quarantined file and save it on your system which is probably harmful due to the infections. A user should only restore or extract if he absolutely requires the document, such as with system files. If you are not sure about the folder, then keep it in the Chest indefinitely. This will not affect the performance of the laptop. In case, if you uninstall Avast, then it will ask you to remove those files as well.