Managing Quarantine

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The list of objects isolated by Dr.Web for Linux to quarantine is displayed on a separate page. To open this page, click on the navigation pane.

Figure 32. Quarantine management page

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

Name of the malicious object

Action to be applied to the object in quarantine

Name of the threat (according to the Doctor Web classification)

Applying Actions to Quarantined Threats

To apply an action to an object isolated in quarantine, right-click anywhere in the table row, which contains the information about this object, and select the required action on the appeared shortcut menu. If you need to apply an action to several isolated objects, select the corresponding rows in the table and then right-click anywhere in the selected area. To select several rows, hold CTRL or SHIFT down:

When you hold CTRL, rows are added to the selection one at a time.

When you hold SHIFT, adjacent rows are added to the selection.

The menu contains the following actions:

Restore—restore selected objects to its original location.

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

Delete—delete selected objects permanently.

Rescan—scan selected objects once again and cure, if possible.

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

To apply actions to isolated object, it may be necessary to elevate application privileges. For example, to apply actions to objects moved to quarantine by any user.

Viewing Details on Quarantined Objects

To receive detailed information about any isolated object, right-click the corresponding row and select Details on the appeared menu. This opens the window with information on the object. If you need to view details on several objects, select them on the list by using the left mouse button and holding down CTRL.

Figure 33. Isolated object details

This window contains the following information:

Threat name (according to the Doctor Web classification)

Date and time when the object was isolated to quarantine

Type of the quarantine where the object is isolated.

Name of the last applied action and its result;

Details on the isolated file system object: name, owner, last modification date, object path in the file system.

If you click the threat name, its description will open in the browser (a page of Doctor Web official website will open; Internet connection is required) installed in the system.

Click Export if you want to save the displayed information to a text file (once the button is clicked, the file browsing window will open). To close the window with threat and object details, click Close.