quarantine question

[nortd]

Hi, recently I happened to detect a virus on my laptop with your anti-malware program, anyway after the initial full scan I followed the instructions and the virus was neutralized, also I had to restart my computer in order for the program to fully destroy the virus, or so it said.

Anyway, after the restart I went to the quarantine section of the program and I noticed the virus was there, or at least the description of it saying the virus is quarantined. Because I made a mistake of miss reading the quarantine information, I deleted the virus thread thinking that that was necessary for completely cleaning up my pc from this threat. Anyway this leaves a question,

Did I by deleting the thread of the virus in the quarantine section just enable it to spread through my pc without the program of ever reading it as a potential threat again?

I ran the program 3 more times with full scan and it didn't pick anything up again. So, is the virus still on my pc and the program is ignoring it?

I also installed "spybot search and destroy" program after that and did a full scan with it and it didn't pick anything up as well.

Am I safe or not?

[lordpake]

Yes, you are safe. By deleting it from Quarantine you removed it permanently.

There is also restore-function, that would have restored the infection to your machine The restore is there in case of false positives.

[nortd]

Yes, you are safe. By deleting it from Quarantine you removed it permanently.

There is also restore-function, that would have restored the infection to your machine The restore is there in case of false positives.

Thank you for explaining and for a fast respond.

If I may just ask, shouldn't there be some sort of an information display after a virus was found, telling the person that he needs to head on to the quarantine section and make his choice about the fate of the disabled virus?

I might be wrong but I just happened to stumble to the quarantine section, I didn't really have any idea that the program would actually keep the virus in case of a false positive.

So for example, if I wouldn't have went to delete the virus in the quarantine section, would the virus reactivate itself if for some reason the program would be uninstalled from my computer?

[noknojon]

Hi nortd -

I might be wrong but I just happened to stumble to the quarantine section, I didn't really have any idea that the program would actually keep the virus in case of a false positive.

One other reason for using quarantine is if you have further infections and you want our experts to check your system, then there will be a record of former infections - Once in quarantine (or deleted) it has have removed the infection from your operating system fully, and regardless of keeping the program or not it has gone -

Thank You -

[nortd]

Hi nortd -

One other reason for using quarantine is if you have further infections and you want our experts to check your system, then there will be a record of former infections - Once in quarantine (or deleted) it has have removed the infection from your operating system fully, and regardless of keeping the program or not it has gone -

Thank You -

Thank you, thats all I needed to hear