Norton, Ad-aware question

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I am using Norton, AVG and now Ad-aware and am a little confused about
Norton and Ad-aware. These two will find problem files and then
"quarantine" them and continue with the scan. I am not sure what I
should do at this point, do I need to delete all of those that are
quarantine, just leave them, or just what. I looked thru the help
screens, but nothing seemed to answer my question.
Thanks
 
Norvin said:
I am using Norton, AVG and now Ad-aware and am a little confused about
Norton and Ad-aware. These two will find problem files and then
"quarantine" them and continue with the scan. I am not sure what I
should do at this point, do I need to delete all of those that are
quarantine, just leave them, or just what. I looked thru the help
screens, but nothing seemed to answer my question.
Thanks
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You may safely leave quarantined files as they are effectively 'contained'.
If you un-install either of the programs then you will get an opportunity to
remove all quarantined items.

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brushes said:
You may safely leave quarantined files as they are effectively 'contained'.
If you un-install either of the programs then you will get an opportunity to
remove all quarantined items.

P
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Thanks for the info,
 
Norvin said:
I am using Norton, AVG and now Ad-aware and am a little confused about
Norton and Ad-aware. These two will find problem files and then
"quarantine" them and continue with the scan. I am not sure what I
should do at this point, do I need to delete all of those that are
quarantine, just leave them, or just what. I looked thru the help
screens, but nothing seemed to answer my question.
Thanks
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One of the reasons for the Quarantine is to let you restore the 'file'
in case the program removed something it shouldn't have or something
you didn't want removed.
As far as I know, the Quarantined items are rendered helpless.
They can be deleted if you are sure you have no need for them.
For instance, AdAware may remove something that causes one of your
programs (IE helper or bar , such as Gator) to stop working and you
want it too work. Then you just go into the Quarantine file and
restore it and put it on Ignore so that AdAware will not bother with
it again.
 
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