Why do anti-virus programs want to move files to quarantine instead of just deleting?
Because if the virus has infected a crucial file, or folder, and it just deletes it....it could screw your computer up.
I'm pretty sure a software company that sells anti-virus, doesn't want that on their wrap-sheet, lawsuit, etc.. It's good they quarentine. So when the file isn't being used, you can see if the file will affect the way your computer runs. If it doesn't screw it up......you can delete it.
Just how it goes. Better to be cautious, than sorry later when you have to recover, reinstall, etc.. The virus attacks a file, clings to it and duplicates. What's to say it won't screw your system up if you just delete it and think it will go away?
Why do anti-virus programs want to move files to quarantine instead of just deleting?
this is because the antivirus thinks that you want to decide later what do you want to do with the file or the antivirus thinks that you want to examine the file more closely or the antivirus thinks that it could be any file an false positive and it wants you to think more about the file or the antivirus thinks that the infected file is very important so it wants you to quarantine it because maybe you want to recover it later
Sometimes the wrong file can be deleted due to tricks played by the person writing the virus. Moving to quarantine gives you a way to back out the deletion or to take a closer look at the file.
