Managing Quarantine

In this section:

General Information.

Applying Actions to Quarantined Objects.

Viewing Details on Quarantined Objects.

General Information

The list of objects quarantined by Dr.Web for Linux is displayed on a special page. To open this page, click on the navigation pane.

Figure 17. Quarantine management

If the quarantine is not empty, the following information is displayed for every threat:

a name of a malicious object;

an action to be applied to the quarantined object;

a name of the threat contained in the object as classified by the Doctor Web company.

Applying Actions to Quarantined Objects

To apply an action to a quarantined object, right-click the row with the information about this object and select a required action from the context menu. If you need to apply an action to several quarantined objects, select the corresponding rows in the list before opening the context menu. To select several rows, hold CTRL or SHIFT:

When you hold CTRL, quarantined objects are selected one by one.

When you hold SHIFT, quarantined objects are selected contiguously.

The context menu provides for the following actions:

Restore—restore the selected objects to their original location on the file system.

Restore to—restore the selected objects to a specified file system location (a window for choosing a target directory will appear).

Delete—irreversibly delete the selected objects.

Rescan—scan the selected objects again and cure them if possible.

If the selected action is successfully applied to the selected object, its row is removed from the table. If the attempt fails, the corresponding row remains active, its text becomes red and the Action field displays details on the error.

To apply actions to quarantined objects, it may be necessary to elevate application privileges; in particular, this is necessary to apply actions to the objects quarantined by another user.

Viewing Details on Quarantined Objects

To receive detailed information about any quarantined object, right-click the corresponding row and select Details from the context menu. This opens a window with the detailed information about the object. If you need to get the detailed information about several quarantined objects, select them in the list before opening the context menu.

Figure 18. The information about the quarantined object

This window displays the following information:

a threat name as classified by the Doctor Web company;

the date and time when the object was quarantined;

a type of the quarantine where the object is isolated;

a name of the last applied action and its result;

the information about the quarantined file system object: its name, user/owner, last modification date and path on the file system.

Click the name of the threat to open a webpage with its description (the Doctor Web official website will be visited; an internet connection is required).

Click Export to save the information displayed in the window to a text file (a file chooser window will open). To close the window with the detailed information about the threat and the object containing it, click Close.