What is the Hospital?

 

Sometimes there may be files that you considered suspicious or that cannot be disinfected. New viruses and threats could also appear. If Platinum Internet Security has not been updated daily and correctly, the new virus will not be detected (it is advisable to perform an update at least once a week).

 

In order to deal with these situations, Platinum Internet Security includes a very useful tool for handling suspicious files: the Hospital. The idea behind this is the same as hospitals that treat people. The only difference is that it is a hospital for preventing and curing file infections not human infections.

 

The Platinum Internet Security Hospital is a health clinic that allows you to admit files that you suspect to be infected. The aim of the Hospital is to take care of patients (files that could be infected with a computer virus -suspicious-), monitor their evolution, find a vaccine or solution to their illness and keep them isolated from others (in Quarantine) in order to avoid their hypothetical infection from spreading.

 

When Platinum Internet Security performs a scan and finds an infected file or a suspicious file, it must carry out an action on it. The action the program carries out on the file depends on what is specified in its configuration. In the Action tab in the configuration of mail automatic protection, you can specify –for example- that the antivirus must Move attachment to quarantine, or Delete attachment etc. Some of the actions defined in the actions configuration directly affect the Hospital.

 

In order to correctly treat infected files, or suspicious file, the Hospital includes what is known as Quarantine. This is a section of the Hospital where suspicious or infected files are kept (those that you add manually or that program adds automatically). By doing this, these files are isolated from the rest, preventing their infection from spreading to others. For more information, consult the Hospital - Quarantine section in this Help.

 

As mentioned earlier, certain actions can be carried out on the files in any of the "wards" or sections of the Hospital or Quarantine: disinfect, send them to Panda Software for analysis, delete, or add them to Quarantine.

 

Through the scan configuration you can Make a backup copy of the file before disinfecting it. This means that if an infected file is detected during the scan, it will be disinfected and that a backup copy will be made before it is disinfected.

 

When this happens and when a previous backup copy of a file exists, Platinum Internet Security will display a new area in the Hospital. This area will be called Backup. From this section you can scan these copies and restore the original files.