Working with the program
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus rescans quarantined objects after each update of its anti-
virus database. If you need to scan quarantined objects manually, we
recommend updating the anti-virus database prior to the scan. Updated
database may already contain information about viruses suspected in your files,
and in that case, they might be disinfected.
Thus, work with suspicious files is performed in the
Quarantine
window (see
Figure 11), which is opened by clicking the
Quarantine
hyperlink on the
Protection
tab
(see Figure 2)
of the main program window or the
View Quarantine
hyperlink in the complete scan window (see Figure 4).
Figure 11. Quarantine storage window
In this dialog box you can perform the following operations in the quarantine
storage:
•
Quarantine a file which you suspect of containing a virus, even though it
has not been detected by the Anti-Virus. In order to do so, use the
Add
object
hyperlink and select the suspicious file in the standard browsing
window. It will be transferred to the list from its original location.
•
Scan and disinfect all suspicious files or files selected from a list using the
current anti-virus database. In order to do so use the
Scan all
hyperlink or
Scan
hyperlink (having first selected the files to scan). Scanning and dis-
infecting any quarantined object may change its status to
infected or dis-
