RE: Hijackers and registry keys

From: MAP (MAP_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:51:01 -0700

"Carri" wrote:

> Could someone please help clarify. We have AVG free
> version and we have Ad-Aware. We run them both pretty much
> daily. Sometimes there seems to be things that attach to
> registry keys. We put it in Quarantine to make sure that
> we don't delete something we shouldn't. But I read that
> everytime the computer restarts it scans the registry and
> fixes any errors so how long should we keep these things
> in Quarantine. There are also files sometimes. When is it
> safe to just delete them? We have like 120 items in
> Quarantine!
> Thanks for any input!
> -Carri
>

If everything runs normally after you Q them then go ahead and delete them,
I wait about two days unless I reconize what was Q then I delete it right
away.

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