about bittorrent and genral downloading?

[James]

AVG would delete the file.

[james dage]

ok if i was to download a file of bittorent and it happened to be infected with a virus, would i be able to scan it with AVG and AVG would delete the virus and i would be able to open in safley ?

[Patters]

Yes, files from BitTorrent are just ordinary files. You can scan them with AVG just like any other file.

If the virus was old enough for AVG to know about it, or obvious enough to make AVG suspicious, then AVG would quarantine it or delete it for you. But if the virus was too new or well-disguised, then AVG (or any other antivirus) would not know that it was a virus and would not do anything about it. This goes for viruses in general, not just ones off of BitTorrent.

Choose torrents that can be confirmed to be "clean".

[Patters]

Yes, files from BitTorrent are just ordinary files. You can scan them with AVG just like any other file.

If the virus was old enough for AVG to know about it, or obvious enough to make AVG suspicious, then AVG would quarantine it or delete it for you. But if the virus was too new or well-disguised, then AVG (or any other antivirus) would not know that it was a virus and would not do anything about it. This goes for viruses in general, not just ones off of BitTorrent.

Choose torrents that can be confirmed to be "clean".

[James]

AVG would delete the file.