I did a virus check on my computer and its still looking for viruses and its found two so far but after its done do i delete the or quarentine them or what?
2006-07-20 14:50:10 · 6 answers · asked by sweetbutter 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You can quarantine them and then find out if those files are something needed by your Windows. If you dont need them, just delete them. Quarantine will isolate those files so that it won't infect other files.
You need to make sure you dont need the files because some viruses will infect a Windows file. I have had many people delete a file that was infected and then their Windows did not start up normally. Keep it quarantined until you know for a fact that those are files you can remove, then delete them.
2006-07-20 14:54:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Delete all the viruses found make sure u read what they are so u know not to go there again if it puts viruses in computer
2006-07-20 21:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if ur using norton or macaffe just do nothin instead go to trendmicro.com and do a scan there its free and its a REAL antivirus not a piece of crap like norton then do a spyware scan there to if it finds anythin just delete the stuff it finds
do not use system restore ull be restoring the viruses to becuz those files will also be infected every 1 knows its safer to have system restore turned off !!!!!
2006-07-21 11:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by personnosrep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
welp...depends on wat kinda antivirus software u r using...n how it is configured...if prompted wheter to delete or quarantine,better choose delete,unless u want to investigate which files being infected n those files r important(files associated with system)...but usually when it cant b deleted,the software will automatically quarantine the infected files...later,when u update the antivirus software,it will send the info of the quarantined files to the database for any patches or updated virus patterns to handle@delete those infected files...if the virus pattern is not available during the update,dont worry...they will use the information they got from those infected files and find some ways to settle the problems.... >_<
2006-07-20 22:05:02 · answer #4 · answered by dOmO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quarantine and then use your computer for a few days. If everything is working OK, you can go back and delete them if you wish
2006-07-20 21:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by Dale P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually the program will finish up and ask what you'd like to do. Delete them!
2006-07-20 21:53:17 · answer #6 · answered by Borat Sagdiyev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋