In an older post, Re: How to delete files from quarantine? (05-18-2010), the following reply was given to the question of how to delete quarantined items:
The items in Quarantine are back-up copies of the File(s) that Norton products removes, in case it is a False Positive, or your O.S. starts to act funny when a File is Removed. If Removal was successful... then the File(s) is/are no longer on your system so, if you Remove the File from History, then that will be removing the back-up copy of the File(s).
In another thread, I see questions about how to delete quarantined files in bulk rather than one by one.
I have two questions:
- How is it possible to delete even a single quarantined item? Does Remove from the quarantine history delete the back-up file or just remove it from the list? Is there a difference between Remove and Delete? If so, how do you actually Delete a file backup?
- Is there any reason to ever Delete or Remove quarantined back-up files? Seems silly to be accumulating a larger and larger back-up file of dangerous files year after year and just let the back-ups sit there indefinitely. Would a periodic purge or the removal of specific quarantined items ever be useful or recommended?
Using Norton 360.
~withoutascent