Restore Lost Files in Avast Antivirus Security Software
If you have Avast, one of the worlds most popular Anti-virus Software running on your computer system, then you certainly must have come across a critical issue whereby this software starts to frequently detect viruses in your Files, and automatically moves them to the Antivirus Chest. The bad news about this is whether these files truly contains viruses or not, this software doesn’t wanna know anymore. Making one feel frustrated.
I had been through an exact situation using the new Avast version 7, i am not sure of why it happened, maybe it’s because I updated the Virus Definitions or something, but I tell you, I felt quite bad, because I was loosing files that were relevant to me, I was confused at first, yet the fact remained that except I perform some operations in the Avast Security Software, there’s was no way I was going to get these Files back.
Now, if you find yourself in the same situation like me, you should do what I did to get them Restored back to my PC.
Here’s What I did:
- Launch the Avast Security Software, you can also find it by Clicking your Windows Start button >> All Programs, you’ll see a list of all Programs installed on your PC, take a closer look at the list, you’ll find it. The software opens displaying Summary with Updates…
- Click MAINTENANCE
- Right underneath it, you find Virus Chest, click it
Here you’ll find a list of all the files you lost that the Avast software had moved to Chest, simply select the file, right-click your mouse, you see an Option telling you to Restore it back to your System, click it, then your lost file(s) will be successfully recovered back to where it was before.