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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.

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.

Recovery from virus infection depends on how the virus infected the computer.
Some viruses leave you with no side−effects to deal with, others may have such
extreme side−effects that you have to restore a hard disk in order to recover.

Some viruses gradually make minor changes to data. This type of corruption can
be hard to detect. It is therefore very important that you read the virus analysis on
the Sophos website, and check documents carefully after disinfection.

Sound backups are crucial. You should keep original executables on
write−protected disks so that infected programs can easily be replaced. If you did
not have them before you were infected, create or obtain them in case of future
infections.

Sometimes you can recover data from disks damaged by a virus. Sophos can
supply utilities for repairing the damage caused by some viruses. Contact Sophos
technical support for advice.