virus vaults - why?

[joko]

Is there any point to keeping a virus in your virus vault when you can just delete it from your system

whats the point of it?

thanks

[Ethel]

I always assumed it was in case it wasn't a virus but a valid and necessary file.

That way it could easily be restored.


I always delete them though.

[Toureman]

The reason it first goes into the vault or quarantine as my norton antivirus is called is so you can send it to be investigated by your antivirus programme maker.

[joko]

but it doesn't really give you the option to do that or instruct you how to do it. they are dangerous things so surely they should talk you through any procedures rather than risk you opening it and it wrecking things?

[boobesque]

it is as jokel suggested in case an important file is infected. if a word file that you have spent years on becomes infected with a virus you wouldnt want it deleted now would you? anti virus programs usually provide fixes for virae when they find them so instead of deleting them, it stores them safely until a fix is made. after the file is fixed you would then be able to thank f**k and get your word doc back.

[joko]

ahh, i see, it isn't just the virus that gets deleted, any infected files get deleted too...ahh...now it makes sense.

thanks