2007-06-12 05:34:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
That totally depends on what the files are, and where they were removed from. Deleting them may cause some programs on your computer to stop functioning properly, but if they are infected, you really do not have much of a choice.
Simple answer: delete them all, and reboot. If any of your prgrams stop working properly, you will probably have to reinstall them.
Also, if you are running ME/2000/XP, and have System Restore enabled, chances are you will never fully get rid of the viruses, unless you disable System Restore, reboot, and do another virus scan. 90% of the time that System Restore is enabled during an infection, there is a 'backup' copy of the virus in one of your Restore Points.
Good luck, and if you need more help, add more details to your question.
Cheers
And Cyber-Medic is right on the money! Where the HECK HAVE you been surfing!?!?!
And ELfaGeek: where are YOU surfing that you would have to empty your vault every week? Maybe you should stop visiting some of those sites! I haven't had an infection since I reformatted my drive over six months ago. And I only reformatted because of all of the installing/uninstalling/editing and such...
Hats off to both of you for the most virus-infected users out there!
2007-06-12 05:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
verify the place the data are meant to be from. AVG has a tendency to declare there are viruses the place there are no. It bumped off extremely some products of a software that i could log into my college from domicile. in view that all those data have been from the nicely-popular company Cisco, i grew to become right into slightly aggravated that they weren't listed in the virus database as risk-free data. additionally, if it extremely is a unfastened version of AVG, evaluate swapping over now to the unfastened version of the two Avast or Avira, the two certainly one of that are greater efficient recognised those days than AVG. AVG 8 is claiming there are viruses in too many different protection classes till Grisoft have have been given around to fixing that.
2016-10-09 01:30:36 · answer #2 · answered by ehler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the purpose of the Virus Vault is to allow you to temporarily save a suspicious file until you're sure you don't need to restore it.
I empty mine weekly.
2007-06-12 05:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
dang dude where you been surfin!!! it all depends on what files they were connected to. if the virus was connected to a startup file the anwser is no not without recreating a copy of the infected file.
2007-06-12 05:41:46 · answer #4 · answered by Cyber-Medic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋