Setting Up and Using Virus Vault in AVG

The Virus Vault in AVG AntiVirus is used to quarantine infected files. Files are moved to the quarantine if AVG "thinks" they are unsafe.

Once moved to the Virus Vault, virus-infected files can't spread the infection and are inaccessible to the system and other users.

The reason behind using the Virus Vault is that some files classified as unsafe may turn out completely legitimate items after some time, and you may want to recover them from the Virus Vault. If there were no quarantine for those files, they would be gone forever.

Recovery is simple and you can run it at any time by opening the AVG Virus Vault window:

In the Virus Vault window you can see all quarantined items along with the reason why they've been moved here. Information displayed here includes infection severity, path to the infected file, virus details and date when the item has been quarantined.

If you are confident an item is safe and has been moved to the Virus Vault in error, you can recover it by selecting the item, right-clicking it and choosing the Restore option. This will instantaneously recover the file and it will reappear in its original location as shown in the file path. You can also select custom recovery folder by choosing the Restore as option.

You can restore as many files as you like in one go, just remember to highlight all items you wish to restore before proceeding.

More Virus Vault options

There are more maintenance tasks you can run on your Virus Vault files in AVG:

You can Delete the files you don't need - simply select the items you want to get rid of and select the Delete option. You can also delete all files in one go by choosing the Empty Vault option.

If you think a file might seem interesting to the AVG engineers, you can send it for inspection. Select the file, right click on it and click Send to analysis.