delete or keep quarantine?

Discussion in 'Windows - Virus and spyware problems' started by BIGnewb, Jan 23, 2006.

  1. BIGnewb

    BIGnewb Guest

    i use spysweeper sometimes and i have alot of cookies,dialers,trojans and other bull#@%! and i want to delete it but will it be removed off my whole system or if i delete it it will come back up.should i keep it in quarantine forever?
     
  2. Jeanc1

    Jeanc1 Guest

    The only reason you have the option to QUARANTINE is because whoever made that software you are using has some reserves as to the efficiency of his software ! In others words, software makers do protect themselves ; if you mess up your PC by removing TOTALLY what the software they have designed has found , they are off the hook cause they have given you the choice of quarantine and re-install if you decide so !

    It all depends on how well you trust the piece of software you are using !

    You can always empty the quarantine cache from time to time !
     
  3. BIGnewb

    BIGnewb Guest

    what does quarantine mean
     
  4. Jeanc1

    Jeanc1 Guest

    The software you are using (SPYSWEEPER) always makes a folder where it puts whatever it removes if you chose ""quarantine"" -- == means it puts the stuff where you can retrieve it ! In the old days people were isolated from others for 40 days when they fell sick with a contagious illness ; that was a quarantine , from latin for 40 days.

    When you empty that folder, there gone.
     

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