What's the diffrent between delete threat and clean up threat? I want the mac is safe,which I'd better choose.
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What's the diffrent between delete threat and clean up threat? I want the mac is safe,which I'd better choose.
thank you Andrew!
I just posted this very same question (will go delete the post now!).
I suspected it might mean "delete the actual file", but that seemed pretty dramatic, so I wanted to be sure.
However, the "Action" that SAV suggested to me (for "clean up manually" style threats) was to choose Delete threat for the custom scans of the infected files. It never warned me that this meant deleting the actual file -- i assumed it was simply going to delete the infection within the file. Luckily they were just Java cache files (I don't even know what that means, other than that they aren't that important). There should be a warning to avoid accidental dumping important files, especially since there exists an option of de-contaminating them without destruction. Now that I know this, I can better understand why SAV suggests not fiddling with the default of "deny access" (allowing the user to deal with the infections however they see fit, via the Quarantine Manager). i.e. Initially, I thought "why on earth wouldn't you simply just to choose delete said viruses asap?!?"
thank you Andrew!
I just posted this very same question (will go delete the post now!).
I suspected it might mean "delete the actual file", but that seemed pretty dramatic, so I wanted to be sure.
However, the "Action" that SAV suggested to me (for "clean up manually" style threats) was to choose Delete threat for the custom scans of the infected files. It never warned me that this meant deleting the actual file -- i assumed it was simply going to delete the infection within the file. Luckily they were just Java cache files (I don't even know what that means, other than that they aren't that important). There should be a warning to avoid accidental dumping important files, especially since there exists an option of de-contaminating them without destruction. Now that I know this, I can better understand why SAV suggests not fiddling with the default of "deny access" (allowing the user to deal with the infections however they see fit, via the Quarantine Manager). i.e. Initially, I thought "why on earth wouldn't you simply just to choose delete said viruses asap?!?"