Safe to delete virus vault?

**NeoDreamer** · March 20th, 2009, 12:15 PM

I have this hidden folder named "$AVG8.VAULT$" which contains some trojans. Is it safe to just SHIFT-DEL it?

**TheCanadian** · March 20th, 2009, 12:24 PM

I never trust any folder with dollar signs in it.

**Templarian** · March 20th, 2009, 12:36 PM

Neo, what exactly do you do with your computer, either that or your work has the worst firewall ever created.

**Seb Hughes** · March 20th, 2009, 01:41 PM

The folder is created by AVG anti virus, once the files are in the ****ty vault, I never know how to delete them. Just do a reinstall AHAH

**NeoDreamer** · March 21st, 2009, 10:57 AM

Everytime a virus is found, it's deactivated and sent to that folder. I don't want it taking up space. If I delete that folder, the viruses won't just respawn ...... right?

**webdev08** · March 22nd, 2009, 11:22 AM

It is much safer to delete the virus files trapped in the virus vault itself of AVG anti virus. It would automatically delete the virus files in the "$AVG8.VAULT$" folder that you see in your Drive c:.

**blnt** · April 8th, 2009, 09:47 AM

i would leave folders created by your antivirus program as they are - if you wanna get rid of their content there's probably in an option in the virusscanner UI - if not its probably not supposed be deleted..