(November 14, 2012 at 11:39 pm)Annik Wrote: How do you know if you should quarantine or delete something?Good question. It all depends on what type of malware you are dealing with, and also what options your virus scanner has. Some malware comes as standalone file which then runs on your system by exploiting vulnerabilities. This kind of file can be deleted without any system hiccups. However, some malware either replaces or infects system files themselves, so deleting such files would mess up the system itself.
In the latter case, if the anti-virus software has an option to "clean" the file in question, choose that. This should remove the malware from the infected file. If there is no "clean" option, choose instead to quarantine it. This places the file in a "safe" area monitored by the anti-virus software, which prevents malware from doing any damage, but lets the file do it's actual job fine.
