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quarantine or delete?

ScumLord · 2009-07-10 15:11:57

I'm using avira anti virus, every time it finds something it gives me a range of options, Quarantine - delete - repair - move - something else What should I be doing, whats the difference?

10-07-2009 04:11PM

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I'm using avira anti virus, every time it finds something it gives me a range of options, Quarantine - delete - repair - move - something else

What should I be doing, whats the difference?

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#2 12-07-2009 07:51PM

Gavin

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Just delete that mofo virus man.

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#3 11-08-2009 08:40AM

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i quarintine mine

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#4 20-08-2009 03:39PM

Shane O' Malley

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Quarantine.

Not unknown for it to be a false positive.

Norton was listing a Windows System file as a virus at one time due to a faulty update.

Kaspersky did the same on our systems with a HP Printer file.

Deleting it caused systems to crash.

Virus will do no harm in quarantine.

Shane

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