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QUARANTINE

Quarantine is a special repository containing the objects that could have been infected with viruses.

Potentially infected objects are objects that are suspected of being infected with viruses or modifications of them.

Why are objects detected as potentially infected? It is not always possible to exactly determine whether an object is

infected or not. This could be for the following reasons:

 The code of the object being analyzed resembles a known threat but is partially altered.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus databases contain the information on the threats investigated to date by Kaspersky Lab

specialists. If a malicious program is modified and these changes are not yet entered into the databases,

Kaspersky Anti-Virus classifies the object infected with the modified malicious program as a potentially infected

object and will indicate without fail what threat this infection resembles.

 The code of the object detected resembles a malicious program by its structure; however, nothing similar is

recorded in the Kaspersky Anti-Virus databases.

It is quite possible that this is a new type of threat, so Kaspersky Anti-Virus classifies that object as a potentially

infected object.

A potentially infected object can be detected and quarantined in the course of Virus Scan (see section "Scanning for

viruses" on page 43), or by File Anti-Virus (see section "Anti-virus protection of your computer's file system" on page 30).

You can quarantine an object by yourself by clicking the Quarantine button in the special notification window (see

section "Notifications" on page 87) that pops up when a potentially infected object is detected.

When you move an object to quarantine, it is moved, not copied: the object is deleted from its original location on a disk

and saved in the quarantine folder. Files in quarantine are stored in a special format and are not dangerous.

IN THIS SECTION:

Actions on quarantined objects ....................................................................................................................................... 75

Configuring quarantine settings ....................................................................................................................................... 77

ACTIONS ON QUARANTINED OBJECTS

The total number of quarantined objects is displayed in the Quarantine section of the main report window (see the figure

below).

To view the storage areas:

1. Open the main application window (on page 13) and click the button.

2. In the left part of the window that opens, select Quarantine (see figure below). Content of the storage will be

displayed in the right-hand part of the window.

You can perform the following actions on objects in quarantine:

 Quarantine files that you suspect of being infected but not detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. To do this, click the

Add button and select the required file in the standard selection window. It will be added to the list with the

added by user status.

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