Feanor

You have got this cool antivirus, you make it scanning your hard disk and it opens a dialog saying "I've found the virus "XYZ" in the file "XKW", what do you want me to do: "repair", "quarantine", "erase", "ignore". Now, for your information: if you select "quarantine" or "erase" the antivirus will NOT eliminate the virus but it will move the whole file in a trash can (the quarantine) or eliminate the file beyond recovery (erase). Repair is not always possible, most of the times you aren't presented this option. Now, what is the problem? The antivirus often is not able to "separate" the virus from the file that contains it, that is particularly bad when, for example, the file is your whole inbox, the single file that stores all your incoming mail. It is not necessary to remove a virus from a "container" if you aren't going to save or execute anything out of it, the virus stays "silent". Plus the antivirus is usually able to intercept the virus when it is executed. So pay attention to not do un-necessary damages. Pick IGNORE and live happily with your silent virus.