Virus Vault

**Wiseguy** · August 12th, 2009, 07:28 AM

I run AVG on my computer and well as SpyBot and AdAware. I'm very happy with them and have quite a few items in my AVG virus vault. My question is this: Do I empty the virus vault? Is the vault used to fix/heal items? Should I leave items in the vault indefinitely?

**Skidog** · August 13th, 2009, 07:23 AM

Leave them in there. They aren't harming anything.

**Wiseguy** · August 13th, 2009, 08:03 AM

Will the vault just keep getting bigger? Are the limits to these vaults?

**zigzag** · August 13th, 2009, 05:01 PM

i'm pretty sure you are fine. the vault probably goes by memory space in your computer. you're good to go.

**Sylkyn** · August 13th, 2009, 05:35 PM

You're doing fine with Spybot and Ad-aware, but I'd ditch AVG. I had it for years (like 9 of them) and got talked into trying avast!. Avast! caught things that AVG never even noticed...old stuff too. My computer ran like a top after getting that crap off of there.

I also highly, HIGHLY recommend malwarebytes. It, too, seems to catch stuff that your other two spybot catchers don't.

Links if you're interested:

Malwarebytes.org (get the free version, of course. It's awesome)

avast! - Download antivirus software for spyware and virus protection (again--the free version is just as great as the pay version)

Edited to add: Yeah, you can leave that stuff in the vault but I usually delete them after a while. It bothers me, for some reason, to leave them for any length of time! lol