difference between delete and quarantine?

Question

i have AVG Anti-Spyware and i can choose if i want to delete or quarantine the adware. which should i choose to kill the adware?

Answer 1

Quarantine places the offender in a special folder, in case an ID mistake was made you can salvage the file. Deleting permanently gets rid of it (until the next time it comes through and has to be deleted again).

Either is ok; both get rid of it, and as far as storage goes, quarantining takes an insignificant amount of disk space.

Answer 2

This was amongst the most excellent answers I read from Mary Landesman. I believe "clean" is synonymous with "Repair" in this context: "If your antivirus encounters an infected file, there are generally three options available: clean , quarantine , or delete . If the wrong option is selected, the results can be catastrophic. And if it's a false positive , such a mishap can be even more frustrating and damaging. As an example, if you instruct your antivirus software to delete all infected files, those that were infected by a true file infecting virus could also be deleted. This could impact the normal features and functionality of your operating system or programs you use. On the other hand, antivirus software can't 'clean' a worm or a trojan, because there is nothing to clean - the entire file IS the worm or trojan. Quarantine plays a nice middle ground, because it moves the file to safe storage under control of the antivirus program - so it can't harm your system - but it's there in case a mistake was made and you need to restore that file. To recap: Clean: attempts to remove the infection from the file. This is only pertinent to virus behavior, wherein a legitimate file has been 'infected' with non-legitimate (usually viral) code. Quarantine: attempts to move the file to a safe location that is managed by the antivirus software. Delete: Removes the file completely from the system. Generally speaking, if it's a worm or trojan then the best option is to quarantine or delete. If it's a true virus, the best option is to clean. However, this assumes you are actually able to distinguish exactly what type it is - which may not always be the case. The best rule of thumb is to proceed from safest (from a recovery standpoint) to least safest (files are gone forever). Start with the 'clean' option. If the antivirus scanner reports that it cannot clean the file, then choose 'quarantine'. Only choose 'delete' if (a) the antivirus scanner specifically recommends it*, or (b) you're absolute certain that it's not a legitimate file, or (c) there's just no other option. *It's worthwhile to check the settings in your antivirus software to see what options have been preconfigured and adjust accordingly."

Answer 3

Delete it. If you Quarantine it will save it in a special file, but what is the point of that?

Answer 4

delete means you are killing the file and u cant get it back...while quarantine means the file is kept in vault whree it cannot work or function......so yeah...if its just a downloaded file or a unwanted file..delete it...but if u think if might be an important file and not sure about it...quarintine.

Answer 5

delete should get rid of it forever and quarintine keeps it seperate from everthing but dosen't delrtr unless you want to