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What is the "quarantine" for?
Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
In the new AVG 8.0 Free edition, in the virus vault it has a button "restore".
Does that mean that it puts the virus back into your PC or does it eliminate it? It has a "delete" button and an "empty" button. But what does the "restore" button mean?
Steve Radner, ,
 Many antivirus products give you the option of putting an infected file into a "vault" or "quarantine". You'd only use that option if you really needed the file and you thought there was a chance you might be able to clean it. Otherwise you;d simply delete the file when the virus was discovered. But the files are safe there- they can't do anything harmful to the system..
We asked AVG and here's the official answer.
"The restore button is meant for restoring any files that have been marked as a virus back to your PC, if you are sure they are not a virus (that is, false positives) . By no means is it meant to restore viruses! The user should be 100% sure the file is not malicious before taking this action."
So there you go. Nuke them.Paul Zucker
 Reader solutions
JCPosted: 03/07/2008 re: What is the Steve, look under "Tools", in AVG 8.0.
You will find 'Advance Settings' there.
Suggest a very good read is in order, for you.
Figure out what you want AVG 8.0 to do, then, make the necessary adjustments.
I set mine(under "Virus Vault") , to "Automatic file deletion".
This will take care of even the 'nasty cookies', for you.
(You still have to manually remove 'cookies', as usual, to avoid your computer bogging down with too many cookies. Make a habit of this, and your computer won't suffer.)
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