Restoring
deleted files from avast chest
Avast as we
all know, to be an antivirus, and most of all, it has been the most popular and
easy to use anti-virus in 2010-2014. Avast as we most know to be a good
ativirus has its own Recycle Bin, where deleted files can be restored.
First of
all, lets know why avast would have to remove viruses from your computer, and
sometimes deleting even the most necessary documents we would never have wanted
to lose them even for a minute.
The avast
antivirus software which is designed to scan through your computer with or without your knowledge, is
capable of blocking, and removing infected files from your computer, including
blocking some websites from downloading viruses to your computer without your
knowledge. Avast is not designed to delete useful documents, but it can in case
where viruses have attached themselves to this documents, so as to gain easy
access to your computers files when you open these files. There are some viruses
that have attached themselves into documents saved on your computer, so as to
execute themselves when these files are opened by the user. The avast antivirus
software does not remove the document of may grounds, but because these viruses
have attached themselves into these files. It could be a line of code, attached
to these, and because the avast antivirus is not designed to scan and remove a
line of code, but to remove the entire infected file from the computer to its
folders, known as the virus chest. However it may be the same case with other
anti viruses, but this document is grounded on avast antivirus.
Look at this
case as too much salt in a pot of soup. You are still very hungry, but you
can’t just eat the food because of its saltiness. The salt in this case is the
virus, for about the fact that salt was supposed to be in it anyway, but let’s
look at the case of too much of it. Now what if you were asked to was out the
salt, leaving the soup at its very best quality, is that really easy to do? I
guess there is no supper man these days, or it may be in movies. Now the
problem is not just the salt, but the food itself, ells you would wash and eat.
You can’t pick out salt from already cooked food, so all you do is “open the
trash can, and turn the whole of it into the trash can”.
The avast
antivirus simply deletes the entire document to keep your stomach free from diseases
that could be come as a result of too much salt.
Now we are
not only concerned about how and why it removes, but we are also concerned
about restoring important infected documents. The avast chest folder holds eat
an every file deleted from your computer for a specified number of days and
deletes it completely. The default virus chest size is set to 256MB and when it
reaches this defined size, it can no longer hold files in this folder and will
have to delete or overwrite older files in the chest, so make sure the file you
want to restore doesn’t stay in there for too long, ells you will lose it.
You will have to do this.
The chest
folder can be located in the program files in the avast folders, but restoring
from there wouldn’t be that easy, so you can use the easy method through the
avast interface.
Double click
the avast icon in system tray, the interface opens with the “current status
tap”. Click “Maintenance” from left bottom menu.
In the
maintenance tap, click “Virus Chest” to see a list of deleted files.
You may have
to disable avast before restoring, ells the file will be deleted before it
reaches its destination.
The avast antivirus scans files when opening and
writing, so if the file had been deleted because its infected, bear in mind
that it still will be deleted as long as the virus is still attached to it.
You may
consider opening and re-saving the document in another location with a
different name, this may work as well as failing.
You can read
through the files to see their names and their locations. Right click a file
and chose restore, if the file is still in place it will as you to either
overwrite, skip or bla bla bla. Chose overwrite to update to original document.
You are done, but consider re-saving the document in another location.
NB: This goes same for any other files of any format, and
will accept the same procedure.
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