Windows – TeraCopy error message: “Operation did not complete … file contains a virus”, yet the antivirus did not prompt me about any detected viruses

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When I was moving a certain file, TeraCopy outputted this error message: "Target: Operation did not complete because the file contains a virus."

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My antivirus (avast!) did not alert me of any detected viruses while I was moving the file. I checked out its log and it hasn't detected anything. And since I haven't configured TeraCopy to 'scan' files that it is transferring, I was wondering why it sent out this error message.

Does TeraCopy have a built-in antivirus of some sort? What could be the reasons why TeraCopy sent out this error message?

Best Answer

TeraCopy in all probability only reported an error message provided by windows as it's a standard windows error message.

0x000000E1 ERROR_VIRUS_INFECTED Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus.

And windows probably got it's information from avast.

You shoud try to scan the file manually with avast and delete it if it contains a virus.

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