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Working With Security History

Getting Started and Selecting a View Searching and Examining Details Quarantining Suspect Software Restoring Quarantined Software Submitting a File Taking Other Actions With Alerts

Quarantining Suspect Software

When you find suspect software, you can add it to the quarantine yourself. You provide the item's description of no more than 60 characters, so be sure to use recognizable terms because these will appear in the Security History.

 

Here's How

  1. Open Security History and click the current view name. (Remind me how.)

  2. Choose Quarantine from near the end of the list that opens.

    Security History refreshes with a list of quarantined items.

  3. Click Add Item to Quarantine in the upper right corner of Security History.

    Click Add Item to Quarantine

    Manual Quarantine opens.

    The Manual Quarantine window

  4. Type a descriptive name for the item in Description, no more than 60 characters.

  5. Provide the full path in File or proceed to steps 7 and 8.

    If you typed or pasted the full path, proceed to step 9.

  6. Click Browse.

  7. Browse to and select the item you want to add to quarantine and click Open.

    Select the file you want to quarantine and click Open

  8. Click Remove file from disk.

    Select the check box Remove file from disk

    This confirms that the file is to be quarantined.

  9. Click Add.

    The File Details area changes to a Status area which reflects the progress of the addition—for example, Pending—and the final status—for example, successful addition of the file to Quarantine.

  10. Click Close.

    Click Close

  11. Click the Refresh button Click the refresh cycle button or press the F5 key.

    Security History refreshes the list with the current quarantine items.

  12. Click the item you added to examine its details.

    Click the added row to examine its details

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What's Next

If necessary, you can remove the file from quarantine—for example, if you determine that the file is not a risk and it is needed by legitimate programs.

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Words to Know

  • Alert: A message that appears to signal that an error has occured or that there is a task that requires immediate attention, such as a virus alert.