Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Is it ok to delete viruses in quarantine if no trojens are ever found?

i download removal tools do the full scan and every time the trojen vendo infostealers and adware are never found.just dont want to delete everything to get the lot back.



Is it ok to delete viruses in quarantine if no trojens are ever found?bmw



Delete that stuff and never worry. It was placed there by an illegitimate program in the first place. I f by chance your normal progs don't work you can reinstall.



Is it ok to delete viruses in quarantine if no trojens are ever found?free adware remover



YES. as a rule of thumb your virus scanner only quarantines items for you to be able to esasily restore if you need to.



as a rule you should after a malware scan restart your system, then check that all programs are working normally (only if malware is found). if a program reports an error you may find that the file is in the quarantine file.



if no errors are found with your system after a restart then you can safely delete files from the quarantine location.



rescan your computer. now if any malware is found then delete it, if not restart your stystem then for good measure repeat the scan again. if no errors or malware found then you can safely run your system as normal.



good practice should be to check for updates to your virus definitions files at least once a day. once your update has been downloaded and applied you should run a full system scan for malware.

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