Chapter 10. About Quarantine; Using Quarantine - McAfee VIRUSSCAN 5.1 User Manual

About Quarantine
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Using Quarantine

Many VirusScan components allow you to move infected files to a quarantine
folder. This moves infected files from areas where they can be accessed and
enables you to clean or delete them at your convenience.
To use Quarantine to work with infected files that were quarantined, follow
these steps:
1. Start the VirusScan Console.
2. Click Quarantine. The Quarantine Explorer window appears.
3. Select an infected file and choose from the following.
Figure 10-1. Quarantine window
• Add. Select this option to quarantine a suspected file.
• Clean. Select this option to remove the virus code from infected file.
If the virus cannot be removed, it will notify you in its message area.
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