Anything in the vault can be removed. The vault is used to save a copy of the virus, either stripped or in its form with the infected file. You would really only keep it if you want to do any kind of research on it or, more likely, the infected file could not be repaired and you really need the file. So, you keep it in the vault hoping that one day someone or something will come to the rescue and save the file. Healing is obviously to repair the fail and wipe is, well, delete the file. I don't use AVG, but like any virus app, you usually have it try to heal, and if it can't delete you have it vault the file. Then, on occasion, you check the vault and see if the file is needed. ---Troth -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glo Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:02 AM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- AVG Question Hi Group, I know a lot of you use AVG Free Edition, which sends bad things to the Virus Vault. I check that every day and delete the files that I find in there. There is also an option to 'wipe objects' or 'heal objects' --I just delete everything. Is this generally the right way to handle these bad files containing worms or whatever? I've been doing this for some time and all seems to be ok, but wonder what others do with these files. I see no reason to keep them. ~Glo -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.3.0 - Release Date: 2/21/2005 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk