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Overview of Avira Professional Security
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by the Avira Malware Research Center has been recommended in the virus
detection dialog box or in the report file generated by the scan.
Suspicious file: You consider a file to be suspicious and have therefore moved
this file to quarantine, but a scan of the file for viruses and malware is negative.
Suspicion of false positive: You assume that a virus detection is a false
positive: Your Avira product reports a detection in a file, which is very unlikely to
have been infected by malware.
Note
The size of the files you upload is limited to 20 MB uncompressed or 8 MB
compressed.
If you want to copy a quarantined object from quarantine to another directory:
Highlight the quarantined object and click on .
The dialog Browse For Folder opens from which you can select a directory.
Select a directory where you want to save a copy of the quarantined object and
confirm your selection.
The selected quarantined object is saved to the selected directory.
Note
The quarantined object is not identical to the restored file. The quarantined
object is encrypted and cannot be executed or read in its original format.
If you want to export the properties of a quarantined object to a text file:
Highlight the quarantined object and click on .
The text file quarantaene - Notepad opens containing the data from the selected
quarantined object.
Save the text file.
You can also restore the files in quarantine (see Chapter: Quarantine: Restoring files in
quarantine).
4.2.11 Restore the files in quarantine
Different icons control the restore procedure, depending on the operating system:
In Windows XP:
This icon restores the files to their original directory.