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Question

Corrupted video file automatically deleted from desktop?

Jul 16, 2017 5:07AM PDT

I had recover a video file from memory card and I put on to desktop, but file is corrupted so at that time I used repair software after repair main file is not on desktop.i think automatically deleted ..I used a AVG antivirus.so what is the problem ? .

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Repair software
Jul 16, 2017 5:50AM PDT

Do some reading about this software and see what it does with the input and output file

Perhaps there are some settings that you tell it what you want done.

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Deleted
Jul 16, 2017 7:49AM PDT

Ok but my recovery file deleted from desktop automatically...

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Why files deleted automatically
Jul 16, 2017 7:52AM PDT

Why files deleted automatically from desktop with out prompt me , is anything related to hacking ?

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Doubtful
Jul 16, 2017 8:06AM PDT

Look in the settings for the recovery program.

There might be options about what you want done with the input and output file.

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Probably not the AV
Jul 17, 2017 11:18AM PDT

Hey VenkataKrishna, it's likely that AVG isn't related to the file being missing, as others have recommended I would check the settings of your file repair program to see what happened, perhaps it has a log function that might tell you what happened to the file, if it was able to restore it, etc?

That being said, AVG and Avast do have advanced techniques for detecting malware and zero-days, such as behavior analysis, AI, real-time updates, etc, so it is technically possible the file was flagged if it were either trying to execute or was behaving strangely, or exhibited malware characteristics. If this were the case, you should have received a warning right away explaining what was happening and the course of action to take, e.g. block and quarantine the file, allow it, etc. (This also depends on how you have AVG set up.)