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Questions tagged [quarantine]

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Windows Defender won't delete or restore quarantined threat

Windows Defender has quarantined two threats on my PC recently: one is an infected executable on a network share (which was put there deliberately and which someone needs), the other is a simple "potentially unwanted app" from a bundle installer I…
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DMG mounting warning message says "it may make computer less secure or cause other problems"

When I try to open a DMG file I get this: I'll just transcript the image: There may be a problem with this disk image. Are you sure you want to open it? Opening this disk image may make your computer less secure or cause other problems. What does…
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Security Essentials: restore a quarantined file to a different location?

I have a file that Security Essentials quarantined "on sight" that I want to restore to perform some further analysis on. However, the file was stored on my NAS server. This means I had accessed the server by entering \\192.168.1.5 into my Run box,…
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How to disable quarantine completely in macOS?

In macOS Big Sur (v11.2.3), how can I completely disable the following warning (see screenshot), for all applications I ever download? Yes, I know of the potential security risks, and I'm willing to take them. I've tried: sudo defaults write…
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Causes of: com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: Exited with code: 1

A subset of our users are reporting that our application refuses to run (bounces once in the dock, and then closes). If we drill into the application bundle (/Application.app/Contents/MacOS) and execute the app from there (./Application), it runs…
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How to stop the "Are you sure dialogue" in Mac OS X?

In Mac OS X 10.5.8 whenever I download an app etc, then open it I get the "This app was downloaded from the internet are you sure you want to open it" dialogue. Never did it with Tiger... Does anyone know how to turn it off?
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In Security Essentials, how do I enable scanning of files previously restored from quarantine?

I had infected .htm files on a web server. I wanted to see the text of one of the files, so I could see the malicious code myself. However, whenever I would download one of the .htm files to my computer via FTP, Microsoft Security Essentials would…
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Detailed reason of M365 Defender Quarantine blocked an incoming mail

I have many returning false positive blocked mails from an organization partner, that always blocked their reply on our emails. Our quarantined report says Blocked by organization policy : Antimalware policy block by file type The only attachment in…
Imre Cserháti
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Windows Security - Restoring a quarantined file which is not found but exists in the quarantine folder

Windows Security has quarantined a text file containing important information. That happened less that 30 days ago, but I cannot see any files in the Windows Security Protection History ("no recent actions"). It seems that the file I need is in the…
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How to stop Windows Defender deleting false positives during file copy?

I have a hard drive with old versions of downloaded programs, some coding I did myself and a few other things that I would like to back-up. The last time I did this, I ended up with Windows Defender on Windows 10 putting a lot of stuff in…
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How do I find information about a particular trojan? "W32/Smalltroj.XVGT", as reported by Norman

I tried checking the Norman antivirus page, Virus-descriptions, but sadly it seems Norman has intentionally obfuscated their search results (I tried clicking on W, and it seems they just list viruses with a W somewhere in the description, instead of…
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How does Mac know an executable is from the outside world?

This is just a curious question occurred to me yesterday while testing a program on other Macs. When I build the program in xcode/terminal and run it, there is no warning dialog. But when I copy the executable to another Mac, there is a warning…
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Office 365: daily quarantine reports

I am looking to activate a daily quarantine report for all users under Office365 but can't seem to find the option in the new layout. It is no longer available under the "classic exchange admin center" in spam-filter. Anybody knows where I can find…
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Cannot execute downloaded file from script

I downloaded a jdk7 tarball to test parity with some old software during an upgrade. When I unpacked it I of course got a bunch of quarantined files. After not finding a way to remove the quarantine flag from the symlinks in the unpacked directory,…
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virus still dangerous when in windows defender quarantine

So I've checked my computer and I've found an old trojan file in the quarantine-tab of windows defender. It is there since two months. So my question is: If the file is in the quarantine, is it still harmful? Or is it save, if I just remove it now?
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