7.6.4. Quarantine

 

To manage the Quarantine from the Server, stations with Quarantine module must be operated by OS, on which the installation of SpIDer Guard G3 is available (see p. System Requirements).

Otherwise, remote control is impossible. Quarantine also will not be able to manage files from the Infected.!!! folder and information on Quarantine contents will not be sent to the Server.

 

Quarantine Content

Files can be added to the Quarantine:

by one of anti-virus components, e.g. Scanner,

manually by user via the Quarantine Manager.

After moving to Quarantine, files are automatically rescanned. This affords:

clarifies the status of infection: presence of infection and its type (because in manual moving to Quarantine, information on files infection status is unavailable),

infection names and their type are cast to a common view.

Also, user can rescan files in Quarantine via the Control Center or via the Quarantine Manager at the station.

To view and manage Quarantine files, do the following:

1.Select the Network item in the main menu, then click the name of the station or group in the hierarchical list and select Quarantine in the control menu (panel on the left).

2.A new window with table that contains Quarantine current state opens. If you selected one workstation, a table in the window displays objects in Quarantine at this station. If you selected more than one stations or one or more groups, the windows displays a set of tables with quarantined objects for each station.

3.To filter files by time when they were quarantined, set a time slot on the toolbar and click Refresh.

4.To manage files in Quarantine, set the flag for the corresponding file, group of files or for all files in the Quarantine (at the table header). On the toolbar, select one of the following actions:

- Restore the files from the Quarantine.

 

Use this option only then, when you are sure that the objects are not harmful.

 

Select one of the options from the drop-down list:

a) - Restore the original location of the file, i.e. restore the file to the folder where it had resided before it was moved to the Quarantine.

b) - Restore the file to the folder specified by the administrator.

Remove files - delete the file from the Quarantine and from the system.

Scan files - scan selected in Quarantine file one more time.

Export - copy and save selected in Quarantine files.

After moving suspicious files to the local Quarantine on user's computer, you can copy these files via the Control Center and save them via the web browser, e.g. to send files to the Dr.Web virus laboratory ulteriorly. For saving, set the flags for the needed files and click Export.

Export data about the Quarantine state to a file in one of the following formats:

- CSV format,

- HTML format,

- XML format.