Solution 1: Retrieve Files Deleted by Avast from Avast Virus Chest. Many users who lost files due to virus attack reports that they successfully retrieve files from Avast Virus Chest. So, if you happened to face a similar situation. The following tutorial shows you how to recover deleted files by extracting files from the Virus Chest to a specified location. Now you can go through the procedure as follows.

That is Windows malware, and not a threat to your computer. It is in your local snapshots, which are backups kept on your internal hard drive for one week. Anything older than one week is removed. Just ignore this, and it'll be removed on its own.

This came onto your machine via e-mail, as LowLuster points out. You should NEVER let any anti-virus software remove malware of any kind from your e-mail. Doing so will probably leave it on the server (depending on your Mail settings), where it could be re-downloaded to your computer again, and will also corrupt the mailbox indices. For proper removal, see:

Finally, note that Avast has a serious and long-standing problem with false positives. I don't generally recommend it.

My MAC needs a clean bill of health before I start work on a project. I have used Avast Security and there are 2 files that it will not delete - I have tried countless times and they keep reappearing on the subsequent scan. I have tried to find them myself in finder but can't seem to. Above is a screen grab of what comes up when I have moved them into the chest and then 'delete' them. If anyone can talk me through how I can delete these myself I would be very grateful. My system is OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 version and I am technically inept. Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

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