AVG cought a virus but now what do I do

[Raye]

OK when I clicked on a website, AVG caught a virus called Exploit (thank you AVG!). It gave me options and one was to "Heal" so I did and it told me it was "healed". I then had AVG scan my computer just to make sure and it came up clean. However I can go to the virus vault and it tells me it is there.

it says
healable "no"
source "backup copy"
status "infected"
object path is a temporary internet file (not typing it all out here unless that is necessary since I can't just copy and paste it).

Only thing is I can't "heal" this backup copy (won't let me) so what do I do with it? When I tell it I want to delete the file, it asks me if I want to remove it from the virus vault which I'm scared of doing!

[glc]

You have 3 choices. Leave it in the vault, restore it, or delete it. I'd delete it. Then delete your temporary internet files.

Any time AVG finds a virus in the temporary internet files, don't bother with trying to heal it. Just delete it.

[Dia]

I would also go a step further and check my running processes, and research that definition to make sure it doesnt make any registry edits. Or if it hides itself anywhere else under different files.

[Raye]

glc,
Thank you I'll do that then!!! I was afraid to delete as it says it takes it out of the vault. I take it "heal" doesn't mean that it actually gets rid of the virus - that is what I thought would happen when I clicked on "heal" to begin with.

Dia
I have no idea how to do the steps you tell me to make sure it is really gone.

Thanks y'all.

[glc]

Heal is only recommended if it's a system file critical to Windows operation that contains the virus. Healing supposedly removes the viral code from the file, then puts a backup copy of the infected file in the vault. Anything in the temporary internet files is not a system file.