Disinfect items that contain a virus
Select this to enable Sophos Anti−Virus to disinfect floppy disk boot
sectors, documents, programs and anything else that is selected for
scanning. Disinfection of documents does not repair any changes the virus
has made in the document. (Refer to Getting disinfection information to find
out how to view details on the Sophos website of the virus's side−effects.)
Disinfection of programs should be used only as a temporary measure. You
should subsequently replace disinfected programs from the original disks or
a clean backup.
Other actions against infected files
You should use this option only if advised to by Sophos technical
support.
Sophos Anti−Virus can make an infected file safe in ways other than
disinfection. Click Delete to dispose of the file. Click Move to to move the
file to another folder, which you can select using Browse. Moving an
executable file reduces the likelihood of it being run.
You can't automatically delete or move infected mailboxes.
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