My anti-virus program gives me the option of either disinfecting or deleting the virus, spyware, or ad-ware it finds. Which is more convenient, and which least affects the computer while also protects it more successfully?

6 Responses to “Is it better to disinfect or to delete a virus or spyware found on your system?”

  • phataway.com says:

    This is a good question – I don’t like things just lingering in virus vault so I often delete – but I read somewhere that even then it could reappear somehow???

  • z0plax says:

    Disinfect is usually a good option to try; if the program is unable to disinfect it, often it’ll put it into a "quarantine" area where it’ll be like it was deleted anyway.

    Disinfect at least will make it so the program will attempt to remove the virus / spyware from infected files. In the case of image files, this would be a good thing to do because then there would be a chance that your image file could be recovered minus the nasty spyware.

  • sdouble says:

    Some viruses infect other files that are important to the user. This then makes that file a virus. Deleting it would make it so you could no longer use that file. ie: notepad.exe

    Disinfecting/cleaning it would be best in that case. If it is the viruse itself, delete.

  • dammitdrag says:

    Delete it.

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