When I run clamtk in Linus Cinnamon Mint 18.3 History shows 20 items items found but not in quarantine

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When I run clamtk in Linus Cinnamon Mint 18.3 History shows 20 items items found but not in quarantine #116

Closed jflake10 closed 4 years ago

jflake10 commented 5 years ago

I like the program. I have been running it for 5 days and the only issue is that HISTORY shows the pup files, but nothing shows in quarantine. Is there a suggested

dave-theunsub commented 5 years ago

Hi @jflake10 ,

Apologies for the late response.. completely missed the notification in my inbox.

Anyway, there is no automatic quarantine or delete anymore... that can be pretty dangerous when PUAs are involved. I recommend removing the checkbox from the PUA scanning item in Settings.

See here for more on PUAs.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_unwanted_program

respectfully,
Dave M

dave-theunsub commented 4 years ago

Closing for now. Re-open or open a new issue for further questions.