Hospital - Quarantine

 

The main objective of the Quarantine section included in Platinum Internet Security is to isolate all files that are suspected to contain a virus, or any other file put in Quarantine (automatically by the program, or manually by the user).

 

By adding a suspicious or infected file to Quarantine, you can prevent the infection from spreading to other files (in the computer or through connections to it). Quarantined files cannot be used (only from the program) and therefore cannot infect other files.

 

image\nota_shg.gif Note: All files that are added to Quarantine (manually by the user or automatically by the program), disappear from their original location, until they are restored.

 

When files are moved to the Quarantine section of the Hospital, they are moved from their original directory (in which they were stored), to the directory that Platinum Internet Security uses to Quarantine files. This means that these files can no longer be used. It is as if they did not exist for other applications. They only exist for the program, which handles them in a special way.

 

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When there are files in Quarantine, they are displayed in a list with some of their characteristics divided into columns:

 

·      User name. It is only displayed when the current user is the computer administrator. This column will display the name of users that were using the computer when the files were sent to quarantine.

·      Name. This column is the name of the quarantined file.

·      Original location. This column specifies the directory or folder in which the file was stored before it was quarantined. Remember that when a file is put in Quarantine, it disappears from the directory in which it was stored.

·      Quarantine. This column specifies the date and time the file was added or moved to the Quarantine section.

·      Send to Panda. This column specifies the date and time the quarantined file was sent to Panda Software for analysis.

·      Status. This column shows information on the clinical status of the file. It could be disinfected or not infected. Its current clinical status could also be unknown if no operation has been performed on it.

·      Suggestions. This column shows the action that the program suggests carrying out on the quarantined file.

 

It is possible to perform several actions on the files in the Hospital. You can find out more about these actions in the Actions on the files in Quarantine section in this Help.