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| Question about Antivirus Programs | |
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| Topic Started: May 30 2009, 02:14 PM (166 Views) | |
| cvn-tv-dip | May 30 2009, 02:14 PM Post #1 |
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How come many antivirus programs move by default the harmful files to some kind of a chest? I thought deleting them would be the obvious choice. |
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| peteh | May 30 2009, 05:02 PM Post #2 |
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I believe most do it that way so you can review what has been moved to the Chest as there are many cases where stuff is identified as a threat but it's actually not. For example my AntiVirus automatically moved references to PC Anywhere and Logmein because they appeared to give "remote access" It also moved to the chest neccessary automatic update files from an AntiSpyware program |
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| FearKiller | May 30 2009, 07:53 PM Post #3 |
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Antivirus programs will normally move files to a "chest" so that if you absolutely need to, those files can be recovered and restored to there original locations. Either because they were false positives or because they were hijacked system files and need to be taken care of by more advanced cleanup methods. |
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| cvn-tv-dip | May 31 2009, 12:34 AM Post #4 |
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I see. Thanks for answers. One particular program caught about half the files I had so I switched to another and formatted my computer a few months ago. I got curious about this, because that program couldn't do any other action with many of the files. Would they still be dangerous if you physically went into the chest folder? |
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| FearKiller | May 31 2009, 09:53 AM Post #5 |
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Usually if the file is removed from its original location, it cripples the file rendering it useless because when the computer goes to look for the file in one location, it is no longer there. It's recommended that you clear the chest every so often. If your computer has not given you problems after a file has been moved to the chest say one or two months ago, then it's considered safe to delete that file permanently. |
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