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cobra
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a buddy of mine has a couple of virusses on his comp that norton isn't able to restore.
can i delete the files on the comp? for now they are in quarantine.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| I'd Quartine the files and if it dosent seem to mess nething up go ahead n delete um |
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Yeah. He should be able to get a copy of them from someone else's install, if he needs them. Particularly if they are just DLL files.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: virus prob. |
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| cobra wrote: | a buddy of mine has a couple of virusses on his comp that norton isn't able to restore.
can i delete the files on the comp? for now they are in quarantine.
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I have the same norton and thats exactly what I do. When they are in quarantine delete them 
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Use system restore |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Lil-Yugi wrote: | | Use system restore |
Why 
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Blue Ruler wrote: | | Lil-Yugi wrote: | | Use system restore |
Why |
 If u use system restore u can go back before u caught the viruses if it was in one day.... |
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Google them and see if there are removal instructions available. We use the same program and when these pop up we have always (so far) found how and where to root them out. If you just delete them you are leaving the regestry junk and stuff in there.
I dont know about restore...dont use that.
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Goback 3.0 would be better.  lol |
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I don't get the purpose of Norton having a Quarantine folder, why would anyone want the virus to still be on the computer?
That's why mine is set to automatically delete the virus
Oh, and btw, does anyone know how to get rid of W32.Spybot.Worm? Everytime it comes back Norton stops it, but it doesn't delete the file where the virus is coming from...and it's really annoying to get a damn Norton popup when ur playing DOD
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| DaRkAtH wrote: | I don't get the purpose of Norton having a Quarantine folder, why would anyone want the virus to still be on the computer?
That's why mine is set to automatically delete the virus
Oh, and btw, does anyone know how to get rid of W32.Spybot.Worm? Everytime it comes back Norton stops it, but it doesn't delete the file where the virus is coming from...and it's really annoying to get a damn Norton popup when ur playing DOD |
I never quarantine a virus too... I just delete em. 
Have u tried symantecs website on how to remove the virus?
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| DaRkAtH wrote: | I don't get the purpose of Norton having a Quarantine folder, why would anyone want the virus to still be on the computer?
That's why mine is set to automatically delete the virus
Oh, and btw, does anyone know how to get rid of W32.Spybot.Worm? Everytime it comes back Norton stops it, but it doesn't delete the file where the virus is coming from...and it's really annoying to get a damn Norton popup when ur playing DOD |
A guess try www.antivirus.com
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| DaRkAtH wrote: | I don't get the purpose of Norton having a Quarantine folder, why would anyone want the virus to still be on the computer?
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Two reasons:
1) If you get infected with a new virus, and later on get definitions that allow you to clean your files, you can clean (and recover) the files that are in quarantine and not lose them permanently. While they're quarantined, the system can't access them and they won't infect the rest of your computer.
2) If you get bad virus definitions that cause false positives (doesn't happen often, but I can tell you first hand it does!) then you won't blow away critical system files if they are falsely flagged as infected.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: virus prob. |
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| cobra wrote: | a buddy of mine has a couple of virusses on his comp that norton isn't able to restore.
can i delete the files on the comp? for now they are in quarantine.
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There are generally two kinds of files that viruses transmit these days. A standalone virus/worm file, and the "regular" files on your computer that it infects. For example, say BugBear gets into your computer. There is a bugbear.exe (or something like that) which is not a legitimate program of any sort. It rips through your address book, sent messages, etc. and randomly picks files in your computer and sends them to any email addresses it finds. Then it goes into random .EXE files and alters them with the code that makes BugBear run when you run the EXE (like WORD.EXE for Microsoft Word). Word.exe is a legitimate program which can possibly have the virus cleaned, where bugbear.exe is not and can (and should) be deleted.
It can be really hard these days to tell the difference between legitimate virus programs and critical system files, as many viruses operate under names like "explorer .exe", winlogon.exe, ntservice.exe, lsass.exe, winhelp.exe, all of which are the same or similar to critical Windows files. When in doubt, search an antivirus vendor's web site (like Symantec) to find out what the virus does and what files it transmits as to see if they can safely be deleted. Most viruses have removal instructions so it tells you what to delete and what not to delete.
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