Malware in the recycle bin

If I delete malicious file manually and put it in the recycle bin, can malware still be active? Am I still infected?

 

You're only "infected" if it's running.....

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No. But if another user was to restore it from the recycle bin....
Unless you are the only user you're probably better off zipping it into a password protected file in a select folder, if you actually want to keep it.
If you don't want to keep it, just delete it, and empty the recycle bin.