Avira User Manual

6. Quarantine and Logs
6.1 Quarantine
Quarantine and Logs
Detected viruses, malware or unwanted programs are stored in the quarantine directory.
Files cannot be added manually to the quarantine directory. Once a file is sent to
quarantine it cannot be executed as long as it resides in quarantine.
The Quarantine tab
To open the quarantine manager, click Quarantine & Logs in the sidebar.
Click the Quarantine tab to open the quarantine manager.
The detected malware is displayed in a table, listed by Date, Virus and Filename.
The latest detections are placed at the bottom of the table.
To select an item, click the appropriate checkbox.
To view detailed information, double-click the file.
The displayed Quarantine details are the following:
Original file name: The original name and place of the file, for example a file in the
Downloads folder.
Quarantine file name: The file is packaged into a special format (*.qua) and moved
to the Quarantine directory on your hard disk, so that direct access is no longer
possible. Files can be restored, rescanned, deleted or sent to Avira, if necessary.
Date: The time and day, the malware was detected and added to the quarantine.
Whether this kind of malware was already sent to Avira or not.
Detection version: The version of the virus definition file.
Engine version: The version of the anti-virus engine.
Additional info: ---
In addition, the Malware table displays more information about the quarantined file. In
order to see the complete URL, you may resize the column width by dragging the
column header line to the left or to the right. For further adjustments of the display,
use the slider at the bottom of the table.
Name: The name of the detected malware.
Type: The assumed type of the malware, as viruses or unwanted programs.
URL: The source of the detection.
Click the red close button in the title bar or click OK to close the Quarantine details
information window.
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