How to Destroy Quarantined Viruses

[J Canuck]

Recently an Adware scan quarantined some Trojans. If I deleted the quarantined files, will I screw up my computer?

Would it be better to repeat deep scans with the following virus detection programs to see if one of them would automatically delete them?

Do I have to restore the quarantined files before I run these deep scans?

Trend Micro - I continuously run its’ virus protector only.

ZoneAlarm – I continuously run its’ firewall only.

Malewarebytes – I use it only for periodic deep scans.

[Little Powell]

<strong>J Canuck wrote:</strong>

Recently an <em>Adware</em> scan quarantined some Trojans. If I deleted the quarantined files, will I screw up my computer?

Would it be better to repeat deep scans with the following virus detection programs to see if one of them would automatically delete them?

Do I have to restore the quarantined files before I run these deep scans?

<em>Trend Micro</em> - I continuously run its’ virus protector only.

<em>ZoneAlarm</em> – I continuously run its’ firewall only.

<em>Malewarebytes</em> – I use it only for periodic deep scans.

I would try and remove them with Malwarebytes. I've had it detect and remove threats on my computer many times, and it's never let me down.

[J Canuck]

Do I have to restore the files currently in quarantine by Adware before I run Malwarebytes in order for Malwarebytes to get at them?

[Little Powell]

<strong>J Canuck wrote:</strong>

Do I have to restore the files currently in quarantine by Adware before I run Malwarebytes in order for Malwarebytes to get at them?

I would say yes, go ahead and restore them and then clean with Malwarebytes. I would suggest only having one virus scanner to avoid any issues like this in the future. They will always want to fight over which one gets to clean the virus.

[J Canuck]

Thanks for this Little Powell - I'll give it a go.

I always have Trend Micro's virus protector only running constantly and ZoneAlarm's firewall only running constantly. I find each company is still best at what they started with years ago. I keep everything else turned off. Whenever I run deep scans, I shut down everything else. For years so far, I haven't had a problem.