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No. &nbsp;Read <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061103112324AAlIcAc" rel="ugc nofollow">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061103112324AAlIcAc</a>&nbsp;and you'll see a few of the possible reasons you might want to quarantine as opposed to deleting the possibly infected file.
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No.  Read http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061103112324AAlIcAc [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061103112324AAlIcAc] and you'll see a few of the possible reasons you might want to quarantine as opposed to deleting the possibly infected file.

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@geertplaisier:<br />
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your answer, when I started typing mine, you hadn't yet posted.<br />
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@jrsylvain:<br />
Ignore my post and award points to geertplaisier (if you accept his/her answer), unless you feel that I contributed something new. &nbsp;If so, feel free to split as you wish.
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@geertplaisier:
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your answer, when I started typing mine, you hadn't yet posted.

@jrsylvain:
Ignore my post and award points to geertplaisier (if you accept his/her answer), unless you feel that I contributed something new.  If so, feel free to split as you wish.

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I have an antivirus program I need to know if when a virus is quarantine if the virus can still infect my machine.
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I have an antivirus program I need to know if when a virus is quarantine if the virus can still infect my machine.

antivirus program

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

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