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ClamWin: Quarantined file are still malicious

When my clamwin quarantined a virus, the virus is recognised as malicious by my pc antivirus. Why is this happening. I used Symantec antivirus and AVG free both. Why is the av prog still recognize the virus eventhough it's quarantined escpecially Virus/Worm Mytob. Somebody please solve this problem.

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Quarantine

Quarantine just gets a file out of the way temporarily so you don't accidentally use it. It's still on your PC and still infected, though. All AV software works like this and if you use multiple AV products, they'll see viruses in each other's quarantine directories. To avoid the warnings, delete the files in the quarantine.

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