Quaranteen

[Roy Thomson]

As a matter of interest when Anti Virus software Quaranteens infected files where do they put them on your hard drive?
Should quaranteened files be deleted and if so how do you do it??
Just curious.
Thanks,
Roy

[Mel Culbreath]

Roy,

I run Windows XP and Norton Antivirus 2002, so I can tell you about my system - yours may differ.

A shortcut to the quarantine folder is located at c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\Norton Antivirus

I couldn't find the actual infected file.

To delete a quarantined item, open Norton Antivirus. Then click on REPORTS on the left side of the screen. Then click on the button that says VIEW REPORT which is to the right of QUARANTINED ITEMS. Then highlight the infected file and hit the DELETE key.

That will get rid of the file which has been quarantined, although it will not show up in your Recycle Bin.

Hope this helps.

Mel

[Roy Thomson]

I will follow through on that proceedure Mel.
Mine is Windows 2000. Should be the same in this regard.
Thank you muchly.
Roy

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[Joey Ace]

I am often asked, "Why quarenteen the infected files? Why not just delete them?"

The answer is:
If some important file that you do not want to loose becomes infected, and there is currently no way to clean it, you can save it in Quarenteen until a removal tool for that virus becomes available".

I've never seen this actually happen, but that's the story I got straight from a McAfee rep.

[Donny Hinson]

I believe Norton "quarantines" a suspected file by removing it's original extension, and substituting a .vir extension. Physically moving the file to some other place on the drive would probably serve no useful purpose, as most utilities scan the entire drive, anyway.